Detecting giant electron-hole asymmetry in a graphene monolayer generated by strain and charged-defect scattering via Landau level spectroscopy

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Bai, Ke Ke ^a   Wei, Yi Cong ^a   Qiao, Jia Bin ^a   Li, Si Yu ^a   Yin, Long Jing ^a   Yan, Wei ^a   Nie, Jia Cai ^a   He, Lin ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84942437210     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.121405     Document Type: Article

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