Express optical analysis of epitaxial graphene on SiC: Impact of morphology on quantum transport

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4217-4223

  Yager, Tom ^a   Lartsev, Arseniy ^a   Mahashabde, Sumedh ^a   Charpentier, Sophie ^a   Davidovikj, Dejan ^a   Danilov, Andrey ^a   Yakimova, Rositza ^b   Panchal, Vishal ^c,d   Kazakova, Olga ^c   Tzalenchuk, Alexander ^c,d   Lara Avila, Samuel ^a   Kubatkin, Sergey ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

electron transport; Epitaxial graphene; graphene characterization; graphene morphology; graphene topography; optical microscopy

Indexed keywords

AS-GROWN; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; MAGNETOTRANSPORTS; MULTILAYER GRAPHENE; OPTICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTUM TRANSPORT;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; INSPECTION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SILICON CARBIDE; TOPOGRAPHY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84884257101     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl402347g     Document Type: Article

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