Landau quantization in graphene monolayer, Bernal bilayer, and Bernal trilayer on graphite surface

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Yin, Long Jing ^a   Li, Si Yu ^a   Qiao, Jia Bin ^a   Nie, Jia Cai ^a   He, Lin ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84924347944     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.115405     Document Type: Article

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