Flexural electromechanical coupling: A nanoscale emergent property of boron nitride bilayers

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1681-1686

  Duerloo, Karel Alexander N ^a   Reed, Evan J ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomically thin materials; flexoelectricity; nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS); piezoelectricity; piezotronics; two dimensional materials

Indexed keywords

FLEXOELECTRICITY; NANO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; PIEZOTRONICS; THIN MATERIALS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

BORON NITRIDE; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING; MONOLAYERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

PIEZOELECTRICITY;

BORON DERIVATIVE; BORON NITRIDE; NANOMATERIAL;

CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ARTICLE;

BORON COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84876053801     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl4001635     Document Type: Article

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