Atomic scale study of the life cycle of a dislocation in graphene from birth to annihilation

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lehtinen, O ^a,b   Kurasch, S ^a   Krasheninnikov, A V ^b,c   Kaiser, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

CARBON; CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL PROPERTY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRANSFORMATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ATOMIC SCALE STUDY; BIRTH; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESTRUCTION; DIPOLE; LIFE CYCLE; STUDY DESIGN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84880900046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3098     Document Type: Article

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