Near-field photocurrent nanoscopy on bare and encapsulated graphene

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Woessner, Achim ^a   Alonso González, Pablo ^b,c   Lundeberg, Mark B ^a   Gao, Yuanda ^d   Barrios Vargas, Jose E ^e   Navickaite, Gabriele ^a   Ma, Qiong ^f   Janner, Davide ^a   Watanabe, Kenji ^g   Cummings, Aron W ^e   Taniguchi, Takashi ^g   Pruneri, Valerio ^a,h   Roche, Stephan ^e,h   Jarillo Herrero, Pablo ^f   Hone, James ^d   Hillenbrand, Rainer ^b,i   Koppens, Frank H L ^a,h  

^a BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^b CIC NANOGUNE   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e CSIC   (Spain)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^h INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

ⁱ BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

ELECTRON; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOPARTICLE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONICS; ENCAPSULATION; HEATING; LIGHT; NANOANALYSIS; NEAR FIELD PHOTOCURRENT NANOSCOPY; OPTICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84959441155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10783     Document Type: Article

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