Principle of direct van der Waals epitaxy of single-crystalline films on epitaxial graphene

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kim, Jeehwan ^a   Bayram, Can ^a   Park, Hongsik ^a   Cheng, Cheng Wei ^a   Dimitrakopoulos, Christos ^a,b   Ott, John A ^a   Reuter, Kathleen B ^a   Bedell, Stephen W ^a   Sadana, Devendra K ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; GRAPHENE; SILICON CARBIDE;

CARBON; ELECTRODE; FILM; SUBSTRATE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLUE LIGHT; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE FILM; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FILM; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LUMINESCENCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAN DER WAALS EPITAXY;

EID: 84910597364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5836     Document Type: Article

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