Freestanding van der waals heterostructures of graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 4882-4890

  Azizi, Amin ^a   Eichfeld, Sarah ^a   Geschwind, Gayle ^b   Zhang, Kehao ^a   Jiang, Bin ^c   Mukherjee, Debangshu ^a   Hossain, Lorraine ^a   Piasecki, Aleksander F ^a   Kabius, Bernd ^a   Robinson, Joshua A ^a   Alem, Nasim ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

atomic and chemical structure; freestanding heterostructures; graphene; MoS2< inf>; transition metal dichalcogenides; transmission electron microscopy; WSe2< inf>

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NUCLEATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SAPPHIRE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TRANSITION METALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ABERRATION-CORRECTED SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE RESPONSE; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) CRYSTALS; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84930668029     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01677     Document Type: Article

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