Superlattice structures in twisted bilayers of folded graphene

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Schmidt, Hennrik ^a,b   Rode, Johannes C ^a   Smirnov, Dmitri ^a   Haug, Rolf J ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BILAYER MEMBRANE; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84923364841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6742     Document Type: Article

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