Toward Two-Dimensional All-Carbon Heterostructures via Ion Beam Patterning of Single-Layer Graphene

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5944-5949

  Kotakoski, Jani ^a   Brand, Christian ^a   Lilach, Yigal ^b   Cheshnovsky, Ori ^b   Mangler, Clemens ^a   Arndt, Markus ^a   Meyer, Jannik C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

amorphization; focused ion beam; Graphene; scanning transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

AMORPHIZATION; AMORPHOUS CARBON; ATOMS; CHEMICAL SENSORS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOCUSED ION BEAMS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ION BEAMS; IONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ATOMIC RESOLUTION; CHEMICAL SENSING; DISORDERED REGIONS; ION BEAM PATTERNING; MACROSCOPIC SCALE; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84941118788     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02063     Document Type: Article

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