Optical probing of the electronic interaction between graphene and hexagonal boron nitride

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1533-1541

  Ahn, Gwanghyun ^a   Kim, Hye Ri ^b   Ko, Taeg Yeoung ^a   Choi, Kyoungjun ^b   Watanabe, Kenji ^c   Taniguchi, Takashi ^c   Hong, Byung Hee ^b,d   Ryu, Sunmin ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

2D band; boron nitride; electronic coupling; graphene; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

2D BAND; CHARGE DOPING; ELECTRONIC COUPLING; ELECTRONIC INTERACTIONS; FERMI VELOCITIES; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); LOW DIMENSIONALITY; MECHANICAL STRAIN; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL PROBING; SPECTRAL FEATURE; THERMALLY INDUCED; VAN DER WAALS;

BORON NITRIDE; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84874433453     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305306n     Document Type: Article

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