Surface Engineering of Copper Foils for Growing Centimeter-Sized Single-Crystalline Graphene

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 2922-2929

  Lin, Li ^a   Li, Jiayu ^b   Ren, Huaying ^a,b   Koh, Ai Leen ^c   Kang, Ning ^b   Peng, Hailin ^a   Xu, H Q ^b   Liu, Zhongfan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

active sites; large single crystal graphene; passivation; surface engineering

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; COPPER; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MONOLAYERS; PASSIVATION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTUM HALL EFFECT; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUBSTRATES;

ACTIVE SITE; CATALYTIC SUBSTRATES; CONTROLLED GROWTH; LARGE-AREA GRAPHENE; POLYCRYSTALLINE GRAPHENE; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SURFACE DESIGN; SURFACE ENGINEERING;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84960157996     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b00041     Document Type: Article

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