Strain and electric field induced electronic properties of two-dimensional hybrid bilayers of transition-metal dichalcogenides

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Sharma, Munish ^a   Kumar, Ashok ^a   Ahluwalia, P K ^a   Pandey, Ravindra ^b  

^a HIMACHAL PRADESH UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY GAP; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

CARRIER EFFECTIVE MASS; DICHALCOGENIDES; ELECTRIC FIELD INDUCED; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; HYBRID BILAYERS; SEMICONDUCTOR-TO-METAL TRANSITIONS; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84906324858     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4892798     Document Type: Article

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