Probing the electron states and metal-insulator transition mechanisms in molybdenum disulphide vertical heterostructures

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chen, Xiaolong ^a   Wu, Zefei ^a   Xu, Shuigang ^a   Wang, Lin ^b   Huang, Rui ^a,c   Han, Yu ^a   Ye, Weiguang ^a   Xiong, Wei ^a   Han, Tianyi ^a   Long, Gen ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   He, Yuheng ^a   Cai, Yuan ^a   Sheng, Ping ^a   Wang, Ning ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c HANSHAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTRON; INHOMOGENEITY; INSULATION; MOLYBDENUM; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXCITATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; PHASE TRANSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 84923115973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7088     Document Type: Article

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