Controllable Growth of Vertical Heterostructure GaTexSe1-x/Si by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 8592-8598

  Liu, Shanshan ^a   Yuan, Xiang ^a   Wang, Peng ^b   Chen, Zhi Gang ^c   Tang, Lei ^a   Zhang, Enze ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^a   Liu, Yanwen ^a   Wang, Weiyi ^a   Liu, Cong ^b   Chen, Chen ^a   Zou, Jin ^c   Hu, Weida ^b   Xiu, Faxian ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

GaTexSe1 x; homogeneity; molecular beam epitaxy; two dimensional alloy

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MOLECULAR BEAMS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SILICON WAFERS; TRANSITION METAL ALLOYS; TRANSITION METALS;

CONTROLLABLE SYNTHESIS; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; GATEXSE1-X; HOMOGENEITY; RANDOM-ELEMENT-ISODISPLACEMENT MODEL; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); VERTICAL HETEROSTRUCTURE;

GALLIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84940035715     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03796     Document Type: Article

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