Direct growth of large-area graphene and boron nitride heterostructures by a co-segregation method

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Chaohua ^a   Zhao, Shuli ^a   Jin, Chuanhong ^a   Koh, Ai Leen ^c   Zhou, Yu ^a   Xu, Weigao ^d   Li, Qiucheng ^a   Xiong, Qihua ^d   Peng, Hailin ^b   Liu, Zhongfan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; BORON; BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBE; CARBON; GRAPHENE; NICKEL; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

BORON; CARBON; NICKEL; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTROSCOPY; SUBSTRATE;

ARTICLE; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASOUND; VACUUM; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84924663868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7519     Document Type: Article

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