Thinning segregated graphene layers on high carbon solubility substrates of rhodium foils by tuning the quenching process

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 10581-10589

  Liu, Mengxi ^a   Zhang, Yanfeng ^a,b   Chen, Yubin ^a   Gao, Yabo ^a   Gao, Teng ^a   Ma, Donglin ^a   Ji, Qingqing ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a,b   Li, Cong ^a   Liu, Zhongfan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

APCVD; graphene; moir pattern; STM; wrinkle

Indexed keywords

APCVD; BI-LAYER; CARBON ATOMS; CARBON SOLUBILITY; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION METHODS; COOLING RATES; FEW-LAYER GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE GROWTH; GRAPHENE LAYERS; GROWTH FEATURE; GROWTH MECHANISMS; GROWTH PROCESS; MODEL SYSTEM; QUENCHING PROCESS; STM; VAN HOVE SINGULARITIES; WRINKLE;

CARBON FILMS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; MONOLAYERS; RHODIUM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE SEGREGATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84871603525     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3047154     Document Type: Article

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