Creating a Nanospace under an h-BN Cover for Adlayer Growth on Nickel(111)

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 11589-11598

  Yang, Yang ^a   Fu, Qiang ^a   Li, Haobo ^a   Wei, Mingming ^a   Xiao, Jianping ^a   Wei, Wei ^a   Bao, Xinhe ^a  

^a DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

graphene; heterostructures; hexagonal boron nitride; LEEM; Ni(111)

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; GRAPHENE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NICKEL; NITRIDES;

BI-LAYER STRUCTURE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); LEEM; NI(111); STACKING STRUCTURES; SURFACE SCIENCE STUDIES; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

BORON NITRIDE;

EID: 84952342524     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05509     Document Type: Article

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