Local electric field screening in bi-layer graphene devices

Frontiers in Physics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-10

  Panchal, Vishal ^a,b   Giusca, Cristina E ^a   Lartsev, Arseniy ^c   Yakimova, Rositza ^d   Kazakova, Olga ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Double layer graphene; Electrical gating; Epitaxial graphene; Scanning gate microscopy; Single layer graphene

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GRAPHENE DEVICES;

BI-LAYER; DOUBLE LAYERS; DOUBLE-LAYER GRAPHENE; ELECTRIC FIELD SCREENING; ELECTRICAL GATING; EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; NON-UNIFORM; SCANNING GATE MICROSCOPY; SINGLE LAYER; SINGLE-LAYER GRAPHENE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84942099664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296424X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2014.00003     Document Type: Article

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