Highly defective graphene: A key prototype of two-dimensional Anderson insulators

Nano Research

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 326-334

  Lherbier, Aurélien ^a   Roche, Stephan ^b,c   Restrepo, Oscar A ^a   Niquet, Yann Michel ^d   Delcorte, Arnaud ^a   Charlier, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Anderson insulators; electronic transport; graphene; localization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877794764     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-013-0309-7     Document Type: Article

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