Dispersive growth and laser-induced rippling of large-Area singlelayer MoS 2 nanosheets by CVD on c-plane sapphire substrate

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liu, Hongfei ^a   Chi, Dongzhi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

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EID: 84934324624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11756     Document Type: Article

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