Synthesis of large single-crystal hexagonal boron nitride grains on Cu-Ni alloy

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lu, Guangyuan ^a   Wu, Tianru ^a   Yuan, Qinghong ^b   Wang, Huishan ^a,c   Wang, Haomin ^a   Ding, Feng ^d   Xie, Xiaoming ^a,e   Jiang, Mianheng ^a,e  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^e SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; COPPER; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; NICKEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOY; CARBON; COPPER; NICKEL; OPTIMIZATION; VAPOR PRESSURE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; DENSITY; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; SYNTHESIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84941424032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7160     Document Type: Article

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