Defect-induced photoluminescence in monolayer semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1520-1527

  Chow, Philippe K ^a   Jacobs Gedrim, Robin B ^b   Gao, Jian ^a   Lu, Toh Ming ^c   Yu, Bin ^b   Terrones, Humberto ^c   Koratkar, Nikhil ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

defects; excitons; monolayer; photoluminescence; transition metal dichalcogenides

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATOMS; DEFECTS; EXCITONS; GRAPHENE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POINT DEFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ATOMIC-SCALE DEFECTS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; RELATIVE INTENSITY; SEMICONDUCTING TRANSITION; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

TRANSITION METALS;

EID: 84923506108     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5073495     Document Type: Article

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