Synthesis of Large Area Graphene for High Performance in Flexible Optoelectronic Devices

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Polat, Emre O ^a   Balci, Osman ^b   Kakenov, Nurbek ^b   Uzlu, Hasan Burkay ^b   Kocabas, Coskun ^b   Dahiya, Ravinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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EID: 84947591967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16744     Document Type: Article

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