Electronic excitations in graphene in the 1-50 eV range: The π and π + σ peaks are not plasmons

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3827-3831

  Nelson, Florence J ^a   Idrobo, Juan Carlos ^b   Fite, John D ^a   Mišković, Zoran L ^c   Pennycook, Stephen J ^d   Pantelides, Sokrates T ^b,e   Lee, Ji Ung ^a   Diebold, Alain C ^a  

^a SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d University of Tennessee   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy; electron energy loss spectroscopy; energy loss function; Graphene; interband transitions; plasmons

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ENERGY DISSIPATION; PLASMONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; ABERRATION-CORRECTED SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; ENERGY LOSS FUNCTION; INTER-BAND EXCITATIONS; INTER-BAND TRANSITION; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84903941783     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl500969t     Document Type: Article

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