In Situ Monitoring of Growth of Vertically Stacked h-BN/Graphene Heterostructures on Ni Substrates and Their Interface Interaction
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experiments
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Wei, W.; Zhang, G.; Pan, J.; Cui, Y.; Fu, Q. In Situ Monitoring of Growth of Vertically Stacked h-BN/Graphene Heterostructures on Ni Substrates and Their Interface Interaction. Surfaces 2020, 3, 328-336. https://doi.org/10.3390/surfaces3030024
Wei W, Zhang G, Pan J, Cui Y, Fu Q. In Situ Monitoring of Growth of Vertically Stacked h-BN/Graphene Heterostructures on Ni Substrates and Their Interface Interaction. Surfaces. 2020; 3(3):328-336. https://doi.org/10.3390/surfaces3030024
Chicago/Turabian StyleWei, Wei, Guanhua Zhang, Jiaqi Pan, Yi Cui, and Qiang Fu. 2020. "In Situ Monitoring of Growth of Vertically Stacked h-BN/Graphene Heterostructures on Ni Substrates and Their Interface Interaction" Surfaces 3, no. 3: 328-336. https://doi.org/10.3390/surfaces3030024