High-quality multiterminal suspended graphene devices

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5165-5170

  Ki, Dong Keun ^a   Morpurgo, Alberto F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ballistic transport; graphene bilayer; Multiterminal suspended graphene; negative resistance; quantum Hall effect

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC TRANSPORTS; CHARGE NEUTRALITY; GRAPHENE BILAYERS; METALLIC CONTACTS; MULTI TERMINALS; SUSPENDED GRAPHENE; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS; TWO TERMINALS;

BALLISTICS; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; QUANTUM HALL EFFECT; QUANTUM THEORY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84887847560     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl402462q     Document Type: Article

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