Observation of an intrinsic bandgap and landau level renormalization in graphene/boron-nitride heterostructures

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chen, Zhi Guo ^a   Shi, Zhiwen ^b   Yang, Wei ^c   Lu, Xiaobo ^c   Lai, You ^a   Yan, Hugen ^d   Wang, Feng ^b,e   Zhang, Guangyu ^c   Li, Zhiqiang ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE; GRAPHENE;

CARBON; CRYSTALLIZATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY; HETEROSTRUCTURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; SPECTROSCOPY; VELOCITY;

EID: 84904647401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5461     Document Type: Article

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