Exceptional tunability of band energy in a compressively strained trilayer MoS2 sheet

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 7126-7131

  Hui, Yeung Yu ^a   Liu, Xiaofei ^b   Jie, Wenjing ^a   Chan, Ngai Yui ^a   Hao, Jianhua ^a   Hsu, Yu Te ^c   Li, Lain Jong ^c   Guo, Wanlin ^b   Lau, Shu Ping ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

MoS2; photoluminescence; piezoelectric substrate; Raman spectroscopy; strain engineering

Indexed keywords

BIAXIAL COMPRESSIVE STRAIN; FIRST-PRINCIPLES INVESTIGATIONS; MOS2; PIEZOELECTRIC SUBSTRATES; RAMAN CHARACTERIZATION; STRAIN ENGINEERING; TRANSPARENT GRAPHENE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTORS;

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PIEZOELECTRICITY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

STRAIN;

EID: 84883252748     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4024834     Document Type: Article

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