In situ fabrication of quasi-free-standing epitaxial graphene nanoflakes on gold

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3735-3742

  Leicht, Philipp ^a   Zielke, Lukas ^a   Bouvron, Samuel ^a   Moroni, Riko ^a   Voloshina, Elena ^b   Hammerschmidt, Lukas ^c   Dedkov, Yuriy S ^d,e   Fonin, Mikhail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^e SPECS SURFACE NANO ANALYSIS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

density functional theory; gold; graphene; graphene nanoflakes; intercalation; quasiparticle interference; scanning tunneling microscopy; scattering

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GOLD; INTERCALATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SCATTERING;

AU (111) SUBSTRATES; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; IN-SITU FABRICATION; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; NANO-FLAKES; QUASI PARTICLES; TEMPERATURE PROGRAMMED;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84899420918     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500396c     Document Type: Article

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