A direct and polymer-free method for transferring graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition to any substrate

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1784-1791

  Lin, Wei Hsiang ^a   Chen, Ting Hui ^b   Chang, Jan Kai ^a   Taur, Jieh I ^a   Lo, Yuan Yen ^a   Lee, Wei Li ^b   Chang, Chia Seng ^b   Su, Wei Bin ^b   Wu, Chih I ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

graphene; photoemission spectroscopy; polymer free; scanning tunneling microscope; transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894619419     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406170d     Document Type: Article

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