Nanomesh-Type Graphene Superlattice on Au(111) Substrate

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 8295-8299

  Süle, Péter ^a   Szendrö, Márton ^a   Magda, Gábor Zsolt ^a   Hwang, Chanyong ^b   Tapasztó, Levente ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

^b Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Graphene; nanomesh; scanning tunneling microscopy; superlattice; surface reconstruction

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; LATTICE MISMATCH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; SUPERLATTICES;

AU (111) SUBSTRATES; AU(111) SURFACES; CRYSTALLINE SUBSTRATES; GRAPHENE SUPERLATTICES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANOMESH; SELF ASSEMBLED STRUCTURES; SIMULTANEOUS OBSERVATION;

SURFACE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84949664889     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b03886     Document Type: Article

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