Graphene as a sensor

Current Science

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 430-436

  Amin, Kazi Rafsanjani ^a   Bid, Aveek ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Graphene; Radiation detector; Response and recovery time; Sensor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905907550     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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