Restoring a nearly free-standing character of graphene on Ru(0001) by oxygen intercalation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Voloshina, Elena ^a   Berdunov, Nikolai ^b   Dedkov, Yuriy ^b,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SPECS SURFACE NANO ANALYSIS GMBH   (Germany)

^c IHP   (Germany)

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EID: 84957595092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20285     Document Type: Article

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