Graphene on hexagonal lattice substrate: Stress and pseudo-magnetic field

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 17, 2014, Pages

  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

CRYSTAL LATTICES; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; GRAPHENE; SUBSTRATES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ELASTICITY THEORY; HEXAGONAL LATTICE; MISORIENTATION ANGLE; OUT-OF-PLANE DEFORMATIONS; STRAIN FIELDS; STRAIN PROFILES; SUBSTRATE ADHESION; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 84899836354     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4873342     Document Type: Article

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