Spatial extent of a Landauer residual-resistivity dipole in graphene quantified by scanning tunnelling potentiometry

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Willke, Philip ^a   Druga, Thomas ^a   Ulbrich, Rainer G ^a   Schneider, M Alexander ^b   Wenderoth, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; SILICON CARBIDE;

CARBON; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; LANDAUER RESIDUAL RESISTIVITY DIPOLE; POTENTIOMETRY;

EID: 84924587602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7399     Document Type: Article

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