Coherent longitudinal acoustic phonon approaching THz frequency in multilayer molybdenum disulphide

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ge, Shaofeng ^a,b   Liu, Xuefeng ^a,b   Qiao, Xiaofen ^c   Wang, Qinsheng ^a,b   Xu, Zhen ^a,b   Qiu, Jun ^a,b   Tan, Ping Heng ^c   Zhao, Jimin ^d   Sun, Dong ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b The Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84904652707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05722     Document Type: Article

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