Density of states and its local fluctuations determined by capacitance of strongly disordered graphene

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Wei ^a,b   Chen, Xiaolong ^a   Wang, Lin ^a   He, Yuheng ^a   Wu, Zefei ^a   Cai, Yuan ^b   Zhang, Mingwei ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Han, Yu ^a   Lortz, Rolf W ^a,b   Zhang, Zhao Qing ^a,b   Sheng, Ping ^a,b   Wang, Ning ^a,b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84878632586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01772     Document Type: Article

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