Xe irradiation of graphene on Ir(111): From trapping to blistering

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Herbig, Charlotte ^a   Åhlgren, E Harriet ^b   Schröder, Ulrike A ^a   Martínez Galera, Antonio J ^a   Arman, Mohammad A ^c   Kotakoski, Jani ^d   Knudsen, Jan ^c   Krasheninnikov, Arkady V ^e,f   Michely, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^f INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

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EID: 84941071621     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.085429     Document Type: Article

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