Isolated nanographene crystals for nano-floating gate in charge trapping memory

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yang, Rong ^a   Zhu, Chenxin ^b   Meng, Jianling ^a   Huo, Zongliang ^b   Cheng, Meng ^a   Liu, Donghua ^a   Yang, Wei ^a   Shi, Dongxia ^a   Liu, Ming ^b   Zhang, Guangyu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (China)

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EID: 84880090537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02126     Document Type: Article

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