Spatially resolved photoexcited charge-carrier dynamics in phase-engineered monolayer MoS2

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 840-849

  Yamaguchi, Hisato ^a   Blancon, Jean Christophe ^b   Kappera, Rajesh ^c   Lei, Sidong ^d   Najmaei, Sina ^d   Mangum, Benjamin D ^e   Gupta, Gautam ^a   Ajayan, Pulickel M ^d   Lou, Jun ^d   Chhowalla, Manish ^c   Crochet, Jared J ^b   Mohite, Aditya D ^a  

^a Materials Physics and Applications Division   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^d Rice University   (United States)

^e Pacific Light Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

contact resistance; monolayer; MoS2; optoelectronic; phase conversion; scanning photocurrent microscopy; transition metal dichalcogenide

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CONTACT RESISTANCE; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; OHMIC CONTACTS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTOCURRENTS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TRANSITION METALS;

MOS2; OPTOELECTRONIC; PHASE CONVERSION; SCANNING PHOTOCURRENT MICROSCOPIES; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 84921823036     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn506469v     Document Type: Article

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