Rotational disorder in twisted bilayer graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1655-1663

  Beechem, Thomas E ^a   Ohta, Taisuke ^a   Diaconescu, Bogdan ^a   Robinson, Jeremy T ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

interlayer coupling; Raman spectroscopy; rotational disorder; strain; twisted bilayer graphene

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894633428     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn405999z     Document Type: Article

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