Catalytic growth of graphene: Toward large-area single-crystalline graphene

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2228-2236

  Ago, Hiroki ^a   Ogawa, Yui ^a   Tsuji, Masaharu ^a   Mizuno, Seigi ^a   Hibino, Hiroki ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC GROWTH; CRYSTALLINITIES; CU FOIL; DOMAIN BOUNDARY; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC APPLICATION; GROWTH CONDITIONS; GROWTH MECHANISMS; HIGH CRYSTALLINITY; POLYCRYSTALLINE; SINGLE LAYER; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE;

CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84865094508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz3007029     Document Type: Article

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