Single step fabrication of N-doped graphene/Si3N4/SiC heterostructures

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 835-843

  Vélez Fort, Emilio ^a,b   Pallecchi, Emiliano ^a   Silly, Mathieu G ^c   Bahri, Mounib ^a   Patriarche, Gilles ^a   Shukla, Abhay ^b   Sirotti, Fausto ^c   Ouerghi, Abdelkarim ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

Author keywords

electronic properties; epitaxial graphene; low energy electron microscopy; nitrogen doped graphene; spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902306106     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0444-9     Document Type: Article

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