Unraveling the interlayer-related phonon self-energy renormalization in bilayer graphene

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Araujo, Paulo T ^a   Mafra, Daniela L ^a,b   Sato, Kentaro ^c   Saito, Riichiro ^c   Kong, Jing ^a   Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84871762655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01017     Document Type: Article

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