Probing Critical Point Energies of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: Surprising Indirect Gap of Single Layer WSe2

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 6494-6500

  Zhang, Chendong ^a   Chen, Yuxuan ^a   Johnson, Amber ^a   Li, Ming Yang ^b,c   Li, Lain Jong ^c   Mende, Patrick C ^d   Feenstra, Randall M ^d   Shih, Chih Kang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

critical points in Brillouin zones; interlayer coupling; scanning tunneling spectroscopy; spin orbit coupling; Transition metal dichalcogenides; variable Z spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; METALS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

BRILLOUIN ZONES; INTERLAYER COUPLING; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES;

TRANSITION METALS;

CHALCOGEN; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

CHEMISTRY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

CHALCOGENS; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; TRANSITION ELEMENTS;

EID: 84944342528     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01968     Document Type: Article

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