Thickness-dependent electrical conductivities and ohmic contacts in transition metal dichalcogenides multilayers

Nanotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 41, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Ruei San ^a   Tang, Chih Che ^a   Shen, Wei Chu ^a   Huang, Ying Sheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

conductivity; molybdenum diselenide; multilayer; ohmic contact

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONTACTORS; ION BEAMS; OHMIC CONTACTS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES; FOCUSED ION BEAM TECHNIQUE; MOLYBDENUM DISELENIDE; SURFACE CONDUCTIVITY; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT CONDUCTIVITY; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING MATERIALS;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 84907478694     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/25/41/415706     Document Type: Article

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