Screw-Dislocation-Driven growth of Two-Dimensional few-layer and pyramid-like WSe2by sulfur-assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11543-11551

  Chen, Liang ^a   Liu, Bilu ^a   Abbas, Ahmad N ^a   Ma, Yuqiang ^a   Fang, Xin ^a   Liu, Yihang ^a   Zhou, Chongwu ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical vapor deposition; Screw dislocation; TMDC; Transition metal dichalcogenides; Tungsten diselenides; Two dimensional layered materials; WSe2

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MONOLAYERS; SCREW DISLOCATIONS; SCREWS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

DISELENIDES; LAYERED MATERIAL; TMDC; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; WSE2;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

EID: 84912524826     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn504775f     Document Type: Article

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