Continuously tunable electronic structure of transition metal dichalcogenides superlattices

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhao, Yong Hong ^a,b   Yang, Feng ^a,c   Wang, Jian ^b   Guo, Hong ^d   Ji, Wei ^c  

^a SICHUAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84930237889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08356     Document Type: Article

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