Graphene on Rh(111): Combined DFT, STM, and NC-AFM studies

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 93, Issue , 2014, Pages 8-16

  Stojanov, Petar ^a   Voloshina, Elena ^b   Dedkov, Yuriy ^a   Schmitt, Stefan ^a   Haenke, Torben ^a   Thissen, Andreas ^a  

^a SPECS SURFACE NANO ANALYSIS GMBH   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Density functional theory calculations; Graphene; Moir structures; Scanning tunnelling microscopy

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GRAPHENE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; YARN;

AFM; AFM STUDIES; FORCE MICROSCOPY; RH(111); SCANNING PROBES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84923327655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18777058     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2013.11.040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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