Visualizing nanoscale excitonic relaxation properties of disordered edges and grain boundaries in monolayer molybdenum disulfide

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bao, Wei ^a,b   Borys, Nicholas J ^a   Ko, Changhyun ^b   Suh, Joonki ^b   Fan, Wen ^b   Thron, Andrew ^a   Zhang, Yingjie ^a,c   Buyanin, Alexander ^a,c   Zhang, Jie ^a   Cabrini, Stefano ^a   Ashby, Paul D ^a   Weber Bargioni, Alexander ^a   Tongay, Sefaattin ^b,d   Aloni, Shaul ^a   Ogletree, D Frank ^a   Wu, Junqiao ^a,b   Salmeron, Miquel B ^a,b   Schuck, P James ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE; MOLYBDENUM;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRAIN BOUNDARY; MOLYBDENUM; QUANTUM MECHANICS; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; AUGER ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; DIFFRACTION; DIFFUSION; EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY; NANOIMAGING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM YIELD; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CAMPANILE;

EID: 84939171719     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8993     Document Type: Article

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