Direct experimental evidence of metal-mediated etching of suspended graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4063-4071

  Ramasse, Quentin M ^a   Zan, Recep ^b   Bangert, Ursel ^b   Boukhvalov, Danil W ^c   Son, Young Woo ^c   Novoselov, Konstantin S ^b  

^a SUPERSTEM LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dopants; EELS; Etching; Graphene; Scanning transmission electron microscopy; Single atoms

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; ATOMIC RESOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HIGH-ANGLE ANNULAR DARK-FIELD IMAGING; HOLE FORMATION; HOLE-FORMING PROCESS; IMPURITY ATOMS; METAL ATOMS; METAL DEPOSITION; METAL SPECIES; NANO SCALE; OXYGEN ATOM; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE ATOMS; SINGLE LAYER; VACANCY FORMATION; VACANCY FORMATION ENERGIES;

ATOMS; CHROMIUM; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ETCHING; GOLD; GOLD DEPOSITS; METALS; PALLADIUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84864657693     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300452y     Document Type: Article

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