A method for joining individual graphene sheets

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4965-4972

  Zou, Rujia ^a   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a   Xu, Kaibing ^a   Jiang, Lin ^a   Tian, Qiwei ^a   Sun, Yangang ^a   Chen, Zhigang ^a   Hu, Junqing ^a  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM DIFFUSION; CARBON NETWORK; CONSTANT VOLTAGE; ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; FIELD EMISSION CURRENTS; FIELD-EMISSION TEM; GRAPHENE SHEETS; NEW DEVICES; SCALED DEVICES; SINGLE LAYER; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; TUNNELING MICROSCOPES;

FIELD EMISSION; GEOMETRY; JOINING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84864471360     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.06.031     Document Type: Article

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