Mass-related inversion symmetry breaking and phonon self-energy renormalization in isotopically labeled AB-stacked bilayer graphene

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Araujo, Paulo T ^a   Frank, Otakar ^b   Mafra, Daniela L ^a   Fang, Wenjing ^a   Kong, Jing ^a   Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^a,c   Kalbac, Martin ^a,b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b J HEYROVSKÝ INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 84887119453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02061     Document Type: Article

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