Isotropic Growth of Graphene toward Smoothing Stitching

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 7189-7196

  Zeng, Mengqi ^a   Tan, Lifang ^a   Wang, Lingxiang ^a   Mendes, Rafael G ^b   Qin, Zhihui ^c   Huang, Yaxin ^a   Zhang, Tao ^a   Fang, Liwen ^a   Zhang, Yanfeng ^d,e   Yue, Shuanglin ^e   Rümmeli, Mark H ^b   Peng, Lianmao ^e   Liu, Zhongfan ^d   Chen, Shengli ^a   Fu, Lei ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

graphene; isotropic growth; liquid metal; smooth stitching

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; FILM GROWTH; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAPHENE; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; LIQUID METALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TRANSITION METALS;

GROWTH SUBSTRATES; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; ISOTROPIC GROWTH; ISOTROPIC SURFACES; SINGLE CRYSTAL SUBSTRATES; STERIC HINDRANCES; TRANSITION METAL CHALCOGENIDES; TRANSPORT PERFORMANCE;

GRAIN GROWTH;

EID: 84979915575     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b03668     Document Type: Article

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