Tunable band gap in few-layer graphene by surface adsorption

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Quhe, Ruge ^a   Ma, Jianhua ^b   Zeng, Zesheng ^a   Tang, Kechao ^a   Zheng, Jiaxin ^a   Wang, Yangyang ^a   Ni, Zeyuan ^a   Wang, Lu ^c   Gao, Zhengxiang ^a   Shi, Junjie ^a   Lu, Jing ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

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EID: 84877726239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01794     Document Type: Article

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