Top or underneath? Revealing the structure of multilayer graphene domains with atomic force microscopy and theoretical analysis

Carbon

Volumn 99, Issue , 2016, Pages 131-137

  Huang, Wei ^a   Liu, Zhi Fei ^a   Yang, Zhi Yong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; METAL CLADDING; MULTILAYERS;

ARTIFICIAL STRUCTURES; FEW-LAYER GRAPHENE; FORCE MICROSCOPY; GRAPHENE LAYERS; LAYER-BY-LAYER METHODS; MULTILAYER GRAPHENE; PHASE CONTRASTS; SINGLE LAYER;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84959320437     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2015.11.072     Document Type: Article

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