Thermodynamic equilibrium conditions of graphene films on SiC

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Nemec, Lydia ^a   Blum, Volker ^a   Rinke, Patrick ^a   Scheffler, Matthias ^a  

^a FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; GRAPHENE FILMS; INTERFACE GEOMETRY; PHYSICAL SOCIETIES; RELATIVE STABILITIES; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; THERMODYNAMICALLY STABLE; VAN DER WAALS;

CALCULATIONS; EPITAXIAL FILMS; SILICON CARBIDE; SURFACE DEFECTS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84881529073     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.065502     Document Type: Article

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