Electronic states at the graphene-hexagonal boron nitride zigzag interface

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5128-5132

  Drost, Robert ^a   Uppstu, Andreas ^a   Schulz, Fabian ^a   Hämäläinen, Sampsa K ^a   Ervasti, Mikko ^a   Harju, Ari ^a   Liljeroth, Peter ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Graphene; hexagonal boron nitride; interface; scanning tunneling microscopy (STM); zigzag

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STATES; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; INTERFACE STATES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NITRIDES; NUMERICAL METHODS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ATOMICALLY SHARP INTERFACE; CHEMICAL FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; ELECTRONIC APPLICATION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; LOCALIZED ELECTRONIC STATE; ZIGZAG;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84910154810     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl501895h     Document Type: Article

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