Work function engineering of graphene

Nanomaterials

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 267-300

  Garg, Rajni ^a   Dutta, Naba K ^a   Choudhury, Namita Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bandgap; Functionality; Graphene; Graphene oxide (GO); High occupied molecular orbital (HOMO); Hole transporting layer (HTL); Lower occupied molecular orbital (LUMO); Reduced GO (RGO); Work function (WF)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85120692160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20794991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nano4020267     Document Type: Review

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