Tunable band structures of heterostructured bilayers with transition-metal dichalcogenide and mxene monolayer

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 5593-5599

  Ma, Zhinan ^a   Hu, Zhenpeng ^a   Zhao, Xudong ^a   Tang, Qing ^a   Wu, Dihua ^a   Zhou, Zhen ^a   Zhang, Lixin ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MONOLAYERS; TRANSITION METALS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

CONDUCTION-BAND MINIMUM; DENSITY FUNCTIONALS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; INDIRECT SEMICONDUCTOR; MULTILAYER HETEROSTRUCTURES; TUNABLE BAND STRUCTURES; VALENCE-BAND MAXIMUMS; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

SCANDIUM;

EID: 84896386796     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp500861n     Document Type: Article

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