Molecular self-assembly on graphene on SiO2 and h-BN substrates

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3199-3204

  Järvinen, Päivi ^a   Hämäläinen, Sampsa K ^a   Banerjee, Kaustuv ^a   Häkkinen, Pasi ^a   Ijäs, Mari ^a   Harju, Ari ^a   Liljeroth, Peter ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc); graphene; hexagonal boron nitride (h BN); Molecular self assembly; scanning tunneling microscopy (STM); scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS)

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (CVD); COBALT PHTHALOCYANINE; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); MOLECULAR LATTICE; MOLECULAR SELF ASSEMBLY; PERIODIC POTENTIALS; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY;

BORON NITRIDE; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GRAPHENE; MOLECULES; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SPECTROSCOPY;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84880142324     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl401265f     Document Type: Article

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