Direct low-temperature synthesis of graphene on various glasses by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition for versatile, cost-effective electrodes

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3496-3504

  Sun, Jingyu ^a   Chen, Yubin ^a   Cai, Xin ^c   Ma, Bangjun ^a   Chen, Zhaolong ^a   Priydarshi, Manish Kr ^a   Chen, Ke ^a   Gao, Teng ^a,d   Song, Xiuju ^a   Ji, Qingqing ^a   Guo, Xuefeng ^a   Zou, Dechun ^c   Zhang, Yanfeng ^a,b   Liu, Zhongfan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

direct; glass; graphene; low cost; plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD); various

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946492574     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0849-0     Document Type: Article

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