Biaxial compressive strain engineering in graphene/boron nitride heterostructures

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pan, Wei ^a   Xiao, Jianliang ^b   Zhu, Junwei ^a   Yu, Chenxi ^c   Zhang, Gang ^c   Ni, Zhenhua ^d   Watanabe, K ^e   Taniguchi, T ^e   Shi, Yi ^a   Wang, Xinran ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

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EID: 84870827144     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00893     Document Type: Article

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