Approach to multifunctional device platform with epitaxial graphene on transition metal oxide

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Park, Jeongho ^a   Back, Tyson ^a,b,c   Mitchel, William C ^a   Kim, Steve S ^a   Elhamri, Said ^d   Boeckl, John ^a   Fairchild, Steven B ^a   Naik, Rajesh ^a   Voevodin, Andrey A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c University of Dayton   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

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EID: 84942430544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14374     Document Type: Article

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