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. 2016 Mar 24;6:23547. doi: 10.1038/srep23547

Figure 1. Structural characterization of h-BN/Ni(111).

Figure 1

(a) Step-by-step preparation of the h-BN/Ni(111) structures by MBE. RHEED image of this system is shown as an inset. (b,c) High-resolution TEM images of the 10 ML-thick BN on Ni(111). Inset in (c) shows a zoomed image of the ml-h-BN demonstrating the A-B stacking of BN layers. (d) LEED image of the same sample obtained after atmospheric transfer of ml-h-BN/Ni(111) into a UHV chamber and annealing at 400 °C. The energy of the primary electron beam is 74 eV.