Electric-Field Tunable Band Offsets in Black Phosphorus and MoS2 van der Waals p-n Heterostructure

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 2483-2488

  Huang, Le ^a   Huo, Nengjie ^a   Li, Yan ^a   Chen, Hui ^a   Yang, Juehan ^a   Wei, Zhongming ^a   Li, Jingbo ^a   Li, Shu Shen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

band alignment; electron hole pairs separation; semiconductor to metal transition; work function

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; EXCITONS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORUS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; WORK FUNCTION;

BAND ALIGNMENTS; ELECTRON HOLE PAIRS; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; LINEAR VARIATION; SEMICONDUCTOR-TO-METAL TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84946825364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00976     Document Type: Article

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