Structural reconstruction of the graphene monovacancy

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 4495-4502

  Robertson, Alex W ^a   Montanari, Barbara ^b   He, Kuang ^a   Allen, Christopher S ^a   Wu, Yimin A ^a   Harrison, Nicholas M ^b   Kirkland, Angus I ^a   Warner, Jamie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

defects; electron microscopy; graphene; HRTEM; TEM

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; DEFECT CONFIGURATIONS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; GEOMETRIC PHASE ANALYSIS; HRTEM; LOWER ENERGIES; METASTABLE STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL RECONSTRUCTION;

DEFECTS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; JAHN-TELLER EFFECT; METASTABLE PHASES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84878304935     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn401113r     Document Type: Article

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