Repeated and controlled growth of monolayer, bilayer and few-layer hexagonal boron nitride on Pt foils

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 5199-5206

  Gao, Yang ^a   Ren, Wencai ^a   Ma, Teng ^a   Liu, Zhibo ^a   Zhang, Yu ^b   Liu, Wen Bin ^a   Ma, Lai Peng ^a   Ma, Xiuliang ^a   Cheng, Hui Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^b SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

bilayer; bubbling transfer; chemical vapor deposition; hexagonal boron nitride; monolayer

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT PRESSURE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS; BI-LAYER; BUBBLING TRANSFER; CONTROLLED GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); LARGE-SCALE FABRICATION;

AMMONIA; BUBBLE FORMATION; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; GRAPHENE; MONOLAYERS; PLATINUM; SUBSTRATES; VAPORS;

BORON NITRIDE;

EID: 84879680701     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4009356     Document Type: Article

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