Electrical contacts to two-dimensional semiconductors

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1195-1205

  Allain, Adrien ^a   Kang, Jiahao ^b   Banerjee, Kaustav ^b   Kis, Andras ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONTACTS; GRAPHENE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

CONTACT REGIONS; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; LAYERED CRYSTALS; MOLYBDENUM DISULPHIDE; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TUNGSTEN DISELENIDE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTORS;

CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS);

EID: 84947805505     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4452     Document Type: Review

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