Resonant Raman spectroscopy of twisted multilayer graphene

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wu, Jiang Bin ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Ijäs, Mari ^b   Han, Wen Peng ^a   Qiao, Xiao Fen ^a   Li, Xiao Li ^a   Jiang, De Sheng ^a   Ferrari, Andrea C ^b   Tan, Ping Heng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

CARBON; CRYSTAL; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTRAST; ELECTRON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHONON; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SHEAR FLOW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84923326686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6309     Document Type: Article

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