Growth and structural properties of Pb islands on epitaxial graphene on Ru(0001)

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 22652-22655

  Liu, L W ^a   Xiao, W D ^a   Yang, K ^a   Zhang, L Z ^a   Jiang, Y H ^a   Fei, X M ^a   Du, S X ^a   Gao, H J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; DEPOSITION TEMPERATURES; EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; EQUILIBRIUM SHAPE; LOW-TEMPERATURE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPES; MORPHOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; WEAK INTERACTIONS;

GRAPHENE; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

LEAD;

EID: 84889851686     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp404190c     Document Type: Article

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