Charged nano-domes and bubbles in epitaxial graphene

Nanotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 16, 2014, Pages

  Ben Gouider Trabelsi, A ^a,b   Kusmartsev, F V ^b   Robinson, B J ^c   Ouerghi, A ^d   Kusmartseva, O E ^b   Kolosov, O V ^c   Mazzocco, R ^c   Gaifullin, Marat B ^b   Oueslati, M ^a  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

bubbles; charge density distribution; domes; grapheme; Raman spectroscopy; UFM

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); DOMES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOSTRUCTURES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON CARBIDE;

CHARGE DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; CHARGE REDISTRIBUTION; CHARGED CAPACITANCE; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; GRAPHEME; MORPHOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; UFM; ULTRASONIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84897453631     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/25/16/165704     Document Type: Article

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