Universal shape and pressure inside bubbles appearing in van der Waals heterostructures

The interface between vertically stacked 2D materials can host contaminants trapped within bubbles. Here, the authors show that such nano-bubbles can be used as a platform to explore the van der Waals pressure and elasticity in atomically thin films, in a previously inaccessible confined environment...

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Main Authors: E. Khestanova, F. Guinea, L. Fumagalli, A. K. Geim, I. V. Grigorieva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12587