Patterned arrays of lateral heterojunctions within monolayer two-dimensional semiconductors

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Mahjouri Samani, Masoud ^a   Lin, Ming Wei ^a   Wang, Kai ^a   Lupini, Andrew R ^a   Lee, Jaekwang ^a   Basile, Leonardo ^a,b   Boulesbaa, Abdelaziz ^a   Rouleau, Christopher M ^a   Puretzky, Alexander A ^a   Ivanov, Ilia N ^a   Xiao, Kai ^a   Yoon, Mina ^a   Geohegan, David B ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOY; MOLYBDENUM COMPLEX; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

CRYSTAL; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTRON; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; SULFUR; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL; DECOMPOSITION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; LASER; MISCIBILITY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; VAPORIZATION;

EID: 84937937661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8749     Document Type: Article

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