Photothermoelectric and photovoltaic effects both present in MoS2

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Youwei ^a,b   Li, Hui ^a   Wang, Lu ^a   Wang, Haomin ^b   Xie, Xiaomin ^b   Zhang, Shi Li ^c   Liu, Ran ^a   Qiu, Zhi Jun ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 84923077952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07938     Document Type: Article

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