Structural and Electrical Investigation of C60-Graphene Vertical Heterostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 5922-5928

  Kim, Kwanpyo ^a,b,c   Lee, Tae Hoon ^a,c   Santos, Elton J G ^a,b   Jo, Pil Sung ^a   Salleo, Alberto ^a   Nishi, Yoshio ^a   Bao, Zhenan ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

C60; graphene; organic semiconducting molecules; vertical heterostructures; vertical transistors

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; GRAPHENE TRANSISTORS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLECULES; MORPHOLOGY; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS; MULTIFUNCTIONAL DEVICES; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTING MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING MOLECULES; STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS; VERTICAL TRANSISTORS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84934895996     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00581     Document Type: Article

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