Van der Waals epitaxy and photoresponse of hexagonal tellurium nanoplates on flexible mica sheets

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 7497-7505

  Wang, Qisheng ^a   Safdar, Muhammad ^a   Xu, Kai ^a   Mirza, Misbah ^a   Wang, Zhenxing ^a   He, Jun ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

2D tellurium nanoplate; flexible device; mica substrate; photodetector; van der Waals epitaxy

Indexed keywords

EPITAXIAL GROWTH; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MICA; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; TELLURIUM; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

CHAINLIKE STRUCTURE; FLEXIBLE DEVICE; LARGE LATTICE MISMATCH; LAYERED MATERIAL; MICA SUBSTRATES; NANO-ARCHITECTURE; NANO-PLATE; VAN DER WAALS EPITAXY;

TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84904720205     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5028104     Document Type: Article

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