Electric field control of soliton motion and stacking in trilayer graphene

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 786-789

  Yankowitz, Matthew ^a   Wang, Joel I Jan ^b,c   Birdwell, A Glen ^d   Chen, Yu An ^b   Watanabe, K ^e   Taniguchi, T ^e   Jacquod, Philippe ^a,g   San Jose, Pablo ^f   Jarillo Herrero, Pablo ^b   LeRoy, Brian J ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^f INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GRAPHENE;

CARBON-CARBON BOND; ELECTRIC-FIELD CONTROL; EXTERNAL VOLTAGES; FREE-ENERGY DIFFERENCE; STACKING CONFIGURATIONS; STATE VARIABLES; STRAIN SOLITONS; STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84904731333     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3965     Document Type: Article

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