Anisotropic Effective Mass, Optical Property, and Enhanced Band Gap in BN/Phosphorene/BN Heterostructures

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 42, 2015, Pages 23489-23495

  Hu, Tao ^a   Hong, Jisang ^a  

^a Pukyong National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

anisotropic transport; band gap; heterostructure; optical property; phosphorene

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BORON NITRIDE; ENERGY GAP; HETEROJUNCTIONS;

ANISOTROPIC EFFECTIVE MASS; ANISOTROPIC TRANSPORT; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); INTRINSIC PROPERTY; OPTICAL ANISOTROPIC; PHOSPHORENE; RESEARCH INTERESTS; TRILAYER STRUCTURE;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84946014014     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05694     Document Type: Article

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