Structural and electronic properties of germanene/ MoS2 monolayer and silicene/MoS2 monolayer superlattices

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-9

  Li, Xiaodan ^a   Wu, Shunqing ^a   Zhou, Sen ^b   Zhu, Zizhong ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Germanene; Silicene; Superlattice

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; METALLIC SUPERLATTICES; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; SILICENE; SUPERLATTICES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

FIRST-PRINCIPLES APPROACHES; GERMANENE; NEW APPROACHES; STACKING LAYERS; STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS; WEAK INTERACTIONS;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84899643358     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-110     Document Type: Article

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