Direct fabrication of graphene on SiO 2 enabled by thin film stress engineering

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  McNerny, Daniel Q ^a   Viswanath, B ^b   Copic, Davor ^a   Laye, Fabrice R ^a   Prohoda, Christophor ^b   Brieland Shoultz, Anna C ^a   Polsen, Erik S ^a   Dee, Nicholas T ^b   Veerasamy, Vijayen S ^c   Hart, A John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c KOCH INDUSTRIES INC   (United States)

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EID: 84901470640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05049     Document Type: Article

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