Insights into the early growth of homogeneous single-layer graphene over NI-MO binary substrates

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 3880-3887

  Rümmeli, Mark H ^a,b   Zeng, Mengqi ^c   Melkhanova, Svetlana ^d   Gorantla, Sandeep ^d   Bachmatiuk, Alicja ^a,b   Fu, Lei ^c   Yan, Chenglin ^d   Oswald, Steffen ^d   Mendes, Rafael G ^d   Makarov, Denys ^d   Schmidt, Oliver ^d   Eckert, Jürgen ^d,e  

^a Institute for Basic Science   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

graphene; growth; nucleation; synthesis

Indexed keywords

BINARY SUBSTRATE; DIFFERENT STAGES; EARLY GROWTH; LARGE-AREA GRAPHENE; MOLYBDENUM CARBIDE; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; NUCLEATION DENSITIES; SELF-TERMINATION;

CARBIDES; GROWTH (MATERIALS); NICKEL; NUCLEATION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84885394541     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm4020783     Document Type: Article

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