Ultrasmooth metallic foils for growth of high quality graphene by chemical vapor deposition

Nanotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2014, Pages

  Procházka, Pavel ^a,b   Mach, Jindřich ^a,b   Bischoff, Dominik ^c   Lišková, Zuzana ^a,b   Dvořák, Petr ^a,b   Vaňatka, Marek ^b   Simonet, Pauline ^c   Varlet, Anastasia ^c   Hemzal, Dušan ^d   Petrenec, Martin ^e   Kalina, Lukáš ^f   Bartošík, Miroslav ^a,b   Ensslin, Klaus ^c   Varga, Peter ^a   Čechal, Jan ^a,b   Šikola, Tomáš ^a,b  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e 9052 Zwijnaarde   (Czech Republic)

^f BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

CVD growth; grapheme; metallic foils

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COPPER; METHANE; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VAPORS;

CVD GROWTHS; ELECTRONIC APPLICATION; GRAPHEME; LARGE-AREA SUBSTRATES; METALLIC FOILS; MICRO RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ROOM TEMPERATURE MOBILITY; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84898976311     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/25/18/185601     Document Type: Article

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