Hot Electron-Based Near-Infrared Photodetection Using Bilayer MoS2

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 7440-7444

  Wang, Wenyi ^a   Klots, Andrey ^b   Prasai, Dhiraj ^a   Yang, Yuanmu ^a   Bolotin, Kirill I ^b   Valentine, Jason ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bilayer MoS2; hot electron injection; near infrared photodetection; Plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY GAP; INFRARED DEVICES; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

BI-LAYER; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; PHOTO DETECTION; PHOTORESPONSIVITY; PLASMON RESONANCES; SURFACE PLASMON DECAY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTORS;

HOT ELECTRONS;

EID: 84946943883     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02866     Document Type: Article

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