Semiconductor-metal transition in semiconducting bilayer sheets of transition-metal dichalcogenides

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Bhattacharyya, Swastibrata ^a   Singh, Abhishek K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

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EID: 84865680255     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.075454     Document Type: Article

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