Current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistance in chemical vapor deposition-grown multilayer graphene

Electronics (Switzerland)

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 315-331

  Bodepudi, Srikrishna C ^a   Singh, Abhay P ^a   Pramanik, Sandipan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CVD; Graphene; Magnetoresistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900520329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/electronics2030315     Document Type: Article

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