Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of epitaxial graphene nanoisland on Ir(111)

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Phark, Soo hyon ^a   Borme, Jérôme ^a,b   Vanegas, Augusto León ^a   Corbetta, Marco ^a   Sander, Dirk ^a   Kirschner, Jürgen ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL IBERIAN NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM THEORY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

DENSITY OF STATE; DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCES; EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE EDGES; LOCAL DENSITY OF STATE; POSITION DEPENDENCE; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SPATIAL MODULATIONS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84864000203     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-255     Document Type: Article

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