Top-down fabrication of sub-nanometre semiconducting nanoribbons derived from molybdenum disulfide sheets

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Liu, Xiaofei ^a   Xu, Tao ^b   Wu, Xing ^b   Zhang, Zhuhua ^a   Yu, Jin ^a   Qiu, Hao ^c   Hong, Jin Hua ^d   Jin, Chuan Hong ^d   Li, Ji Xue ^d   Wang, Xin Ran ^c   Sun, Li Tao ^b   Guo, Wanlin ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE; MOLYBDENUM; NANORIBBON;

CARBON; MOLYBDENUM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CRYSTAL; ELECTRON IRRADIATION; ELECTRONICS; FRACTURE; GENERAL DEVICE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; IRRADIATION; NANOFABRICATION; PHASE TRANSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SHEET; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 84877781826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2803     Document Type: Article

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