Sensitivity of graphene edge states to surface adatom interactions

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4820-4826

  Warner, Jamie H ^a   Liu, Zheng ^b   He, Kuang ^a   Robertson, Alex W ^a   Suenaga, Kazu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

edges; EELS; Graphene; STEM

Indexed keywords

ADATOMS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GRAPHENE NANORIBBON; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANORIBBONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEM (SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS);

EDGES; ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; LONG TERM STABILITY; NANOCONSTRICTIONS; NITROGEN ADATOM; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84885444178     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl402514c     Document Type: Article

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