Tunable band gap photoluminescence from atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenide alloys

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 4610-4616

  Chen, Yanfeng ^a   Xi, Jinyang ^b   Dumcenco, Dumitru O ^c   Liu, Zheng ^d   Suenaga, Kazu ^d   Wang, Dong ^b   Shuai, Zhigang ^b   Huang, Ying Sheng ^c   Xie, Liming ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

alloy; band gap; density functional theory calculation; photoluminescence; transition metal dichalcogenide; two dimensional material

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC-RESOLUTION; BAND GAP ENGINEERING; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CALCULATIONS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE CHARACTERIZATION; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSITION-METAL DICHALCOGENIDE; TUNABLE BAND-GAP; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

ALLOYS; CERIUM ALLOYS; CHARACTERIZATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; TRANSITION METALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUNGSTEN; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

MOLYBDENUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84878279044     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn401420h     Document Type: Article

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