Direct imaging of charge transport in progressively reduced graphene oxide using electrostatic force microscopy

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2981-2988

  Yalcin, Sibel Ebru ^a   Galande, Charudatta ^b   Kappera, Rajesh ^c   Yamaguchi, Hisato ^a   Martinez, Ulises ^a   Velizhanin, Kirill A ^d   Doorn, Stephen K ^a   Dattelbaum, Andrew M ^a   Chhowalla, Manish ^c   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^b   Gupta, Gautam ^a   Mohite, Aditya D ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c Piscataway   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

charge injection; charge transport; electrostatic force microscopy (EFM); photoluminescence; progressively reduced graphene oxide; tight binding calculations

Indexed keywords

CARRIER TRANSPORT; CHARGE INJECTION; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC FORCE; GRAPHENE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; OXIDE FILMS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDE; THIN FILMS;

ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTROSTATIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MULTI-FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY CALCULATIONS; REDUCED GRAPHENE OXIDES (RGO); TIGHT-BINDING CALCULATIONS;

ELECTRIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84925610383     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn507150q     Document Type: Article

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