Polyelectrolyte multilayer electrostatic gating of graphene field-effect transistors

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1650-1658

  Wang, Yung Yu ^a   Burke, Peter J ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

dirac point; electrostatic gating; graphene; polyallylamine hydrochloride (PAH); sodium polystyrene sulfonate (PSS); transistor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027925684     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0525-9     Document Type: Article

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