Colossal Ultraviolet Photoresponsivity of Few-Layer Black Phosphorus

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 8070-8077

  Wu, Jing ^a,b   Koon, Gavin Kok Wai ^a,b   Xiang, Du ^a,b   Han, Cheng ^a,b   Toh, Chee Tat ^a,b   Kulkarni, Eeshan S ^a,b   Verzhbitskiy, Ivan ^a,b   Carvalho, Alexandra ^a,b   Rodin, Aleksandr S ^b   Koenig, Steven P ^a,b   Eda, Goki ^a,b   Chen, Wei ^a,b   Neto, A H Castro ^a,b   Özyilmaz, Barbaros ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

Author keywords

black phosphorus; direct band gap; optoelectronics; phototransistor; ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PHOTOTRANSISTORS;

DIRECT BAND GAP; EMERGING MATERIALS; INTER-BAND TRANSITION; LAYERED STRUCTURES; SPECIFIC DETECTIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET; ULTRAVIOLET PHOTORESPONSIVITY; UV PHOTODETECTORS;

PHOSPHORUS;

EID: 84940054464     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01922     Document Type: Article

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