Vapor-solid growth of high optical quality MoS2 monolayers with near-unity valley polarization

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2768-2772

  Wu, Sanfeng ^a   Huang, Chunming ^a   Aivazian, Grant ^a   Ross, Jason S ^a   Cobden, David H ^a   Xu, Xiaodong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

molybdenum disulfide; monolayer; photoluminescence; valley polarization; valleytronics; vapor solid growth

Indexed keywords

DIRECT-GAP SEMICONDUCTOR; ELECTROCHEMICAL SENSING; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; VALLEYTRONICS; VAPOR-SOLID GROWTH; VAPOR-SOLID GROWTH MECHANISM;

LANDFORMS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; OPTICAL GLASS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLARIZATION; SAPPHIRE;

VAPORS;

EID: 84875652036     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4002038     Document Type: Article

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