Two distinct phases of bilayer graphene films on Ru(0001)

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 9299-9304

  Papagno, Marco ^a,b   Pacilé, Daniela ^a,b   Topwal, Dinesh ^c,d   Moras, Paolo ^a   Sheverdyaeva, Polina Makarovna ^a   Natterer, Fabian Donat ^e   Lehnert, Anne ^e   Rusponi, Stefano ^e   Dubout, Quentin ^e   Calleja, Fabian ^e   Frantzeskakis, Emmanouil ^e   Pons, Stéphane ^e,f   Fujii, Jun ^g   Vobornik, Ivana ^g   Grioni, Marco ^e   Carbone, Carlo ^a   Brune, Harald ^e  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^d CSIR CENTRAL GLASS AND CERAMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

^f INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

^g LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

Author keywords

multilayer grapheme; photoemission; Ru; stacking sequence; STM

Indexed keywords

ANGLE RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; BI-LAYER; ELECTRON-DOPING; ETHYLENE EXPOSURES; GRAPHENE LAYERS; P-DOPING; RU(0001); SECOND PHASE; STACKING SEQUENCE; STM;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ETHYLENE; MULTILAYERS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOEMISSION; RUTHENIUM; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL; RUBIDIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHASE TRANSITION; RUBIDIUM; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84867767928     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303821w     Document Type: Article

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