Electronic properties of graphene nano-flakes: Energy gap, permanent dipole, termination effect, and Raman spectroscopy

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Singh, Sandeep Kumar ^a   Neek Amal, M ^a,b   Peeters, F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b SHAHID RAJAEE TEACHER TRAINING UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; ENERGY GAP; GRAPHENE; PASSIVATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SOLIDS;

DIPOLE DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; ELECTRIC POLARIZATION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE; ENERGY CONFIGURATIONS; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; RELATIVE ORIENTATION; SPIN-DOWN ELECTRONS;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84898834664     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4865414     Document Type: Article

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