Scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy of ultra-flat graphene on hexagonal boron nitride
10.1038/nmat2968
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Xue, J., Sanchez-Yamagishi, J., Bulmash, D., Jacquod, P., Deshpande, A., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Jarillo-Herrero, P., & LeRoy, B. J. (2011). Scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy of ultra-flat graphene on hexagonal boron nitride. Nature Materials, 10(4), 282–285.

Authors 9
  1. Jiamin Xue (first)
  2. Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi (additional)
  3. Danny Bulmash (additional)
  4. Philippe Jacquod (additional)
  5. Aparna Deshpande (additional)
  6. K. Watanabe (additional)
  7. T. Taniguchi (additional)
  8. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (additional)
  9. Brian J. LeRoy (additional)
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