Anisotropic Spin Transport and Strong Visible-Light Absorbance in Few-Layer SnSe and GeSe

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 6926-6931

  Shi, Guangsha ^a   Kioupakis, Emmanouil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic structure; GeSe; optical properties; SnSe; solar cells; spin orbit coupling

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SOLAR CELLS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

ELECTRONIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; GESE; MANY BODY PERTURBATION THEORY; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; SNSE; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS; VISIBLE-LIGHT ABSORBANCE;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84944316943     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02861     Document Type: Article

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