Unraveling the 3D Atomic Structure of a Suspended Graphene/hBN van der Waals Heterostructure

Nano Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1409-1416

  Argentero, Giacomo ^a   Mittelberger, Andreas ^a   Reza Ahmadpour Monazam, Mohammad ^a   Cao, Yang ^b   Pennycook, Timothy J ^a   Mangler, Clemens ^a   Kramberger, Christian ^a   Kotakoski, Jani ^a   Geim, A K ^b   Meyer, Jannik C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

graphene; hexagonal boron nitride; scanning transmission electron microscopy; van der Waals heterostructures

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BORON NITRIDE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LATTICE MISMATCH; NITRIDES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); INTERLAYER INTERACTIONS; OUT-OF-PLANE DIRECTION; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCATTERED ELECTRONS; SUSPENDED MEMBRANES; VAN DER WAALS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 85014905104     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04360     Document Type: Article

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