Scaling properties of charge transport in polycrystalline graphene

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1730-1735

  Van Tuan, Dinh ^a   Kotakoski, Jani ^b,c   Louvet, Thibaud ^a,d   Ortmann, Frank ^a   Meyer, Jannik C ^b   Roche, Stephan ^a,e  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

charge transport; grain boundaries; mobility; Polycrystalline graphene

Indexed keywords

CHARGE DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (CVD); CVD-GROWN GRAPHENE; LATTICE ORIENTATIONS; METALLIC SUBSTRATE; POLYCRYSTALLINE GRAPHENE; RANDOM NUCLEATION SITES; SCALING PROPERTIES;

CARRIER MOBILITY; CHARGE CARRIERS; CHARGE TRANSFER; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COALESCENCE; FLOCCULATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; SUBSTRATES;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAPHITE; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84876061599     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl400321r     Document Type: Article

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