Robust graphene membranes in a silicon carbide frame

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 4441-4448

  Waldmann, Daniel ^a   Butz, Benjamin ^a   Bauer, Sebastian ^a   Englert, Jan M ^a   Jobst, Johannes ^a   Ullmann, Konrad ^a   Fromm, Felix ^a   Ammon, Maximilian ^a   Enzelberger, Michael ^a   Hirsch, Andreas ^a   Maier, Sabine ^a   Schmuki, Patrik ^a   Seyller, Thomas ^b   Spiecker, Erdmann ^a   Weber, Heiko B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

epitaxial graphene; membranes; photo assisted etching; Raman spectroscopy; transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE TREATMENT; ARBITRARILY SHAPED MEMBRANES; EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; FABRICATION PROCESS; GRAPHENE LAYERS; PHOTO-ASSISTED; PHOTO-ELECTROCHEMICAL ETCHING; SUSPENDED MEMBRANES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON CARBIDE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 84878338898     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn401037c     Document Type: Article

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