Elastic deformations in 2D van der waals heterostructures and their impact on optoelectronic properties: Predictions from a multiscale computational approach

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kumar, Hemant ^a   Er, Dequan ^a   Dong, Liang ^a   Li, Junwen ^a   Shenoy, Vivek B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 84935880806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10872     Document Type: Article

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