Imaging atomic-level random walk of a point defect in graphene

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kotakoski, Jani ^a,b   Mangler, Clemens ^a   Meyer, Jannik C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

CARBON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IMAGING METHOD; SOLID; TIMESCALE; TRAJECTORY;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VACUUM;

EID: 84901773254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4991     Document Type: Article

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