Enhanced ultra-low-frequency interlayer shear modes in folded graphene layers

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Cong, Chunxiao ^a   Yu, Ting ^a,b,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

CARBON; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; ELECTRON; EXCITATION; PHONON; POLARIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; ROTATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 84907343860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5709     Document Type: Article

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