Observation of piezoelectricity in free-standing monolayer MoS2

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 151-155

  Zhu, Hanyu ^a   Wang, Yuan ^a   Xiao, Jun ^a   Liu, Ming ^a   Xiong, Shaomin ^a   Wong, Zi Jing ^a   Ye, Ziliang ^a   Ye, Yu ^a   Yin, Xiaobo ^a,b   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; TRANSITION METALS;

BULK PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; PIEZO-ELECTRIC STRUCTURES; PIEZOELECTRIC COEFFICIENT; PIEZOELECTRIC RESPONSE; SINGLE MOLECULAR LAYERS; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CRYSTALS;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

MOLYBDENUM COMPLEX; DISULFIDE; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; MEASUREMENT; OSCILLATION; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DISULFIDES; MOLYBDENUM;

EID: 84926109615     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.309     Document Type: Article

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