Plasma-assisted fabrication of monolayer phosphorene and its Raman characterization

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 853-859

  Lu, Wanglin ^a   Nan, Haiyan ^b   Hong, Jinhua ^a   Chen, Yuming ^b   Zhu, Chen ^a   Liang, Zheng ^c   Ma, Xiangyang ^a   Ni, Zhenhua ^b   Jin, Chuanhong ^a   Zhang, Ze ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Graphene Research and Characterization Center   (China)

Author keywords

Mechanical cleavage; monolayer phosphorene; optical contrast; plasma thinning; Raman spectroscopy; two dimensional semiconductor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902344446     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0446-7     Document Type: Article

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