Fast growth of inch-sized single-crystalline graphene from a controlled single nucleus on Cu-Ni alloys

Nature Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 43-47

  Wu, Tianru ^a   Zhang, Xuefu ^a   Yuan, Qinghong ^b   Xue, Jiachen ^c   Lu, Guangyuan ^a,d   Liu, Zhihong ^c   Wang, Huishan ^a   Wang, Haomin ^a   Ding, Feng ^e   Yu, Qingkai ^c   Xie, Xiaoming ^a,f   Jiang, Mianheng ^a,f  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Texas State University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^f SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; MONOLAYERS; NICKEL; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CARBON PRECURSORS; CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; DESIRED POSITION; EFFICIENT STRATEGY; GROWTH SUBSTRATES; SEGREGATION MECHANISM; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84949255293     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4477     Document Type: Article

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