Optical investigation of the natural electron doping in thin MoS 2 films deposited on dielectric substrates

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sercombe, D ^a   Schwarz, S ^a   Pozo Zamudio, O Del ^a   Liu, F ^a,b   Robinson, B J ^c   Chekhovich, E A ^a   Tartakovskii, I I ^d   Kolosov, O ^c   Tartakovskii, A I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 84890723366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03489     Document Type: Article

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