Observation of monolayer valence band spin-orbit effect and induced quantum well states in MOX2

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Alidoust, Nasser ^a   Bian, Guang ^a   Xu, Su Yang ^a   Sankar, Raman ^b   Neupane, Madhab ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Belopolski, Ilya ^a   Qu, Dong Xia ^c   Denlinger, Jonathan D ^d   Chou, Fang Cheng ^b   Hasan, M Zahid ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; MOLYBDENUM COMPLEX; MOLYBDENUM SELENIDE; NANOFILM; TRANSITION ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GRAPHITE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUBSTRATE; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICITY; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; OPTICS; PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTON; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE CHARGE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84907340207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5673     Document Type: Article

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