Insulating behavior of an amorphous graphene membrane

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Van Tuan, Dinh ^a   Kumar, Avishek ^b   Roche, Stephan ^a,c   Ortmann, Frank ^a   Thorpe, M F ^b   Ordejon, Pablo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

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EID: 84866973651     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.121408     Document Type: Article

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