Vertically-aligned graphene flakes on nanoporous templates: Morphology, thickness, and defect level control by pre-treatment

Science and Technology of Advanced Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Fang, Jinghua ^a,b   Levchenko, Igor ^a,c   Kumar, Shailesh ^a   Seo, Donghan ^a,c   Ostrikov, Kostya ^a,c,d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

graphene flakes; nanotemplates; plasma treatment

Indexed keywords

DEFECT DENSITY; DEFECTS; GOLD COATINGS; METAL IONS; METALS; MORPHOLOGY; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; TEMPERATURE;

LOW TEMPERATURES; NANOPOROUS TEMPLATES; NANOTEMPLATES; PLASMA TREATMENT; PRE-TREATMENT; PRETREATMENT METHODS; STRUCTURAL DEFECT; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84908632082     PISSN: 14686996     EISSN: 18785514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1468-6996/15/5/055009     Document Type: Article

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