Observation of Landau levels on nitrogen-doped flat graphite surfaces without external magnetic fields

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kondo, Takahiro ^a   Guo, Donghui ^a   Shikano, Taishi ^a   Suzuki, Tetsuya ^a   Sakurai, Masataka ^a   Okada, Susumu ^a   Nakamura, Junji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

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EID: 84946882406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16412     Document Type: Article

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