Flexible metallic nanowires with self-adaptive contacts to semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 436-442

  Lin, Junhao ^a,b   Cretu, Ovidiu ^c   Zhou, Wu ^b   Suenaga, Kazu ^c   Prasai, Dhiraj ^d   Bolotin, Kirill I ^a   Cuong, Nguyen Thanh ^c   Otani, Minoru ^c   Okada, Susumu ^e   Lupini, Andrew R ^b   Idrobo, Juan Carlos ^b   Caudel, Dave ^a,f   Burger, Arnold ^f   Ghimire, Nirmal J ^b,g   Yan, Jiaqiang ^b,h   Mandrus, David G ^b,g,h   Pennycook, Stephen J ^h   Pantelides, Sokrates T ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^f FISK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^h University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON BEAMS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; MONOLAYERS; TRANSITION METALS;

ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; FOCUSED ELECTRON BEAMS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MECHANICAL DEFORMATION; SEMICONDUCTING MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING TRANSITION; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES;

NANOWIRES;

DICHALCOGENIDE; NANOWIRE; SELENIUM; TRANSITION ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRONICS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; NANOANALYSIS; NANOFABRICATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84902141278     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.81     Document Type: Article

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