Programmable sub-nanometer sculpting of graphene with electron beams

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 10327-10334

  Börrnert, Felix ^a   Fu, Lei ^b   Gorantla, Sandeep ^a   Knupfer, Martin ^a   Büchner, Bernd ^a   Rümmeli, Mark H ^c  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

graphene; in situ TEM; nanoribbon; sculpting

Indexed keywords

CARBON CHAINS; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; IN-SITU TEM; NANORIBBONS; SAMPLE SURFACE; SCULPTING; TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE;

ELECTRON BEAMS; NANOSTRUCTURES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONS; GRAPHITE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84870419088     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn304256a     Document Type: Article

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