Controlled preferential oxidation of grain boundaries in monolayer tungsten disulfide for direct optical imaging

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 3695-3703

  Rong, Youmin ^a   He, Kuang ^a   Pacios, Mercè ^a   Robertson, Alex W ^a   Bhaskaran, Harish ^a   Warner, Jamie H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2D crystals; 2D materials; grain boundaries; TMDs; WS2< inf>

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FILMS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MICROSCOPES; OXIDATION; TRANSITION METALS;

2-D CRYSTALS; CONTROLLED HEATING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; PREFERENTIAL OXIDATION; RAPID IDENTIFICATION; TMDS; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TUNGSTEN DISULFIDE;

GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

EID: 84928964216     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00852     Document Type: Article

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