Probing the bonding in nitrogen-doped graphene using electron energy loss spectroscopy

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 7145-7150

  Nicholls, Rebecca J ^a   Murdock, Adrian T ^a   Tsang, Joshua ^a   Britton, Jude ^a   Pennycook, Timothy J ^a,b   Koós, Antal ^a   Nellist, Peter D ^a,b   Grobert, Nicole ^a   Yates, Jonathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SUPERSTEM LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CVD graphene; EELS; modeling; N doped; nitrogen doping; STEM

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; CVD GRAPHENE; N-DOPED; NITROGEN-DOPED GRAPHENE; NITROGEN-DOPING; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEM; SUBSTITUTIONAL NITROGEN;

ATOMS; DEFECTS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; MODELS; NITROGEN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84883234144     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn402489v     Document Type: Article

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