Novel hetero-layered materials with tunable direct band gaps by sandwiching different metal disulfides and diselenides

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Terrones, Humberto ^a   López Urías, Florentino ^a   Terrones, Mauricio ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCOGEN; DISULFIDE; MOLYBDENUM; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; TRANSITION ELEMENT; TUNGSTEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR;

CHALCOGENS; DISULFIDES; ELECTRONICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLYBDENUM; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTORS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; TUNGSTEN;

EID: 84875773096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01549     Document Type: Article

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