Rapid epitaxy-free graphene synthesis on silicidated polycrystalline platinum

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Babenko, Vitaliy ^a   Murdock, Adrian T ^a   Koós, Antal A ^a,c   Britton, Jude ^a   Crossley, Alison ^a   Holdway, Philip ^a   Moffat, Jonathan ^b   Huang, Jian ^a   Alexander Webber, Jack A ^a   Nicholas, Robin J ^a   Grobert, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD INSTRUMENTS PLASMA TECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; PLATINUM; SILICON;

CARBON; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FILM; HEATING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PLATINUM; SILICON; SUBSTRATE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; HEATING; LIQUID; MOLECULAR SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; VAPOR;

EID: 84954560216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8536     Document Type: Article

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