Quality Heterostructures from Two-Dimensional Crystals Unstable in Air by Their Assembly in Inert Atmosphere

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4914-4921

  Cao, Y ^a   Mishchenko, A ^a   Yu, G L ^a   Khestanova, E ^a   Rooney, A P ^a   Prestat, E ^a   Kretinin, A V ^a   Blake, P ^b   Shalom, M B ^a   Woods, C ^a   Chapman, J ^a   Balakrishnan, G ^c   Grigorieva, I V ^a   Novoselov, K S ^a   Piot, B A ^d   Potemski, M ^d   Watanabe, K ^e   Taniguchi, T ^e   Haigh, S J ^a   Geim, A K ^a   Gorbachev, R V ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Graphene Industries Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d GRENOBLE HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD LABORATORY   (France)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

electronic transport; field effect; niobium diselenide; Phosphorene; superconductivity; transition metal dichalcogenides

Indexed keywords

MONOLAYERS; NIOBIUM; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TRANSITION METALS;

DISELENIDE; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; FIELD EFFECTS; PHOSPHORENE; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 84939224672     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00648     Document Type: Article

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