Towards intrinsic charge transport in monolayer molybdenum disulfide by defect and interface engineering

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yu, Zhihao ^a   Pan, Yiming ^a   Shen, Yuting ^b   Wang, Zilu ^c   Ong, Zhun Yong ^d   Xu, Tao ^b   Xin, Run ^a   Pan, Lijia ^a   Wang, Baigeng ^a   Sun, Litao ^b   Wang, Jinlan ^c   Zhang, Gang ^d   Zhang, Yong Wei ^d   Shi, Yi ^a   Wang, Xinran ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Southeast University   (China)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; DISULFIDE; MOLYBDENUM; SULFUR; THIOL;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LOW TEMPERATURE; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; MOLYBDENUM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CONDUCTANCE; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROSCOPY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84919367616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6290     Document Type: Article

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