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Fabrication of Gate-tunable Graphene Devices for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies with Coulomb Impurities
Published on: July 24, 2015
Subjecting a graphene monolayer to tension and compression
Georgia Tsoukleri1, John Parthenios, Konstantinos Papagelis
1Institute of Chemical Engineering and High Temperature Chemical Processes, Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH/ICE-HT), Stadiou Street, Platani, Patras Acahaias, 26504 Greece.
Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|July 31, 2009
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