Extremely large magnetoresistance in few-layer graphene/boron-nitride heterostructures

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Gopinadhan, Kalon ^a,b   Shin, Young Jun ^b   Jalil, Rashid ^c   Venkatesan, Thirumalai ^b   Geim, Andre K ^c   Neto, Antonio H Castro ^a,b   Yang, Hyunsoo ^a,b  

^a National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; GRAPHENE; NITRITE;

BORON; CARBON; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MOBILITY; NITROGEN COMPOUND; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MAGNETIC FIELD; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84942107769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9337     Document Type: Article

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