Direct oriented growth of armchair graphene nanoribbons on germanium

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jacobberger, Robert M ^a   Kiraly, Brian ^b,c   Fortin Deschenes, Matthieu ^d   Levesque, Pierre L ^e   McElhinny, Kyle M ^a   Brady, Gerald J ^a   Rojas Delgado, Richard ^a   Singha Roy, Susmit ^a   Mannix, Andrew ^b,c   Lagally, Max G ^a   Evans, Paul G ^a   Desjardins, Patrick ^d   Martel, Richard ^e   Hersam, Mark C ^c,f   Guisinger, Nathan P ^b   Arnold, Michael S ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM; GRAPHENE; NANORIBBON;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; CARBON; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FULLERENE; GERMANIUM; GROWTH; ORIENTATION; VAPORIZATION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SYNTHESIS; VAPOR; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84938913211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9006     Document Type: Article

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