Phonon softening and direct to indirect band gap crossover in strained single-layer MoSe2

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Horzum, S ^a,b   Sahin, H ^a   Cahangirov, S ^c   Cudazzo, P ^c   Rubio, A ^c   Serin, T ^b   Peeters, F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

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EID: 84875309678     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.87.125415     Document Type: Article

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