Suppression of grain boundaries in graphene growth on superstructured Mn-Cu(111) surface

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Wei ^a,b   Chen, Hua ^a,c   Lan, Haiping ^b   Cui, Ping ^b   Schulze, Tim P ^a   Zhu, Wenguang ^a,b,d   Zhang, Zhenyu ^b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CU(1 1 1); DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; GRAPHENE GROWTH; GRAPHENE SHEETS; GROWTH METHOD; HYDROCARBON MOLECULES; METAL SUBSTRATE; MISORIENTATIONS; SINGLE ORIENTATIONS; TWO-STEP KINETICS;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; CARBON CLUSTERS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MANGANESE; METHANE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84871762378     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.265507     Document Type: Article

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