Growth of crystalline WSe2 and WS2 films on amorphous substrate by reactive (Van der Waals) rheotaxy

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 457-470

  Tsirlina, T ^a   Cohen, S ^a   Cohen, H ^a   Sapir, L ^a   Peisach, M ^a   Tenne, R ^a   Matthaeus, A ^b   Tiefenbacher, S ^b   Jaegermann, W ^b   Ponomarev, E A ^c   Levy Clement C ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Layered compounds; Metal dichalcogenide; Rheotaxy

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SUBSTRATES; TEXTURES; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

CRYSTALLINE FILMS; METAL DICHALCOGENIDE COMPOUNDS; MOLYBDENUM SULFATE; TUNGSTEN SELENIDE; VAN DER WAALS RHEOTAXY (VDWR);

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0030381499     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-0248(96)00048-7     Document Type: Article

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