Spatially resolved electronic structures of atomically precise armchair graphene nanoribbons

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Huang, Han ^a,b,c   Wei, Dacheng ^a   Sun, Jiatao ^a   Wong, Swee Liang ^a,d   Feng, Yuan Ping ^a   Neto, A H Castro ^a,b   Wee, Andrew Thye Shen ^a,b,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR IMPRINTING; NANOTUBES; SEMICONDUCTORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84871776139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00983     Document Type: Article

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