Photocurrent in graphene harnessed by tunable intrinsic plasmons

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Freitag, Marcus ^a   Low, Tony ^a   Zhu, Wenjuan ^a   Yan, Hugen ^a   Xia, Fengnian ^a   Avouris, Phaedon ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GRAPHENE; NANORIBBON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHONON; POLARIZATION; SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TUNABLE INTRINSIC PLASMON;

EID: 84930685059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2951     Document Type: Article

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