Light generation and harvesting in a van der waals heterostructure

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 3042-3048

  Lopez Sanchez, Oriol ^a   Alarcon Llado, Esther ^a   Koman, Volodymyr ^a   Fontcuberta I Morral, Anna ^a   Radenovic, Aleksandra ^a   Kis, Andras ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

dichalcogenides; heterostructures; light emitting diodes; nanophotonics; p n junctions; solar cells; two dimensional materials

Indexed keywords

DIODES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; NANOPHOTONICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SILICON; SOLAR CELLS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

DICHALCOGENIDES; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE SPECTRA; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; P-N JUNCTION; QUANTUM MECHANICAL CONFINEMENT; SEMICONDUCTING TRANSITION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84896937669     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500480u     Document Type: Article

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