Electronic, magnetic, optical, and edge-reactivity properties of semiconducting and metallic WS2 nanoribbons

2D Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  López Urías, Florentino ^a   Elías, Ana Laura ^b   Perea López, Néstor ^b   Gutiérrez, Humberto R ^c   Terrones, Mauricio ^b,d   Terrones, Humberto ^e  

^a INSTITUTO POTOSINO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TECNOLÓGICA   (Mexico)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Ab initio; Nanoribbons; Tungsten disulfide

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CALCULATIONS; CARBON MONOXIDE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MOLECULES; POLARIZATION; THIOPHENE; TRANSITION METALS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

AB INITIO; FERROMAGNETIC METALLIC; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION ANISOTROPY; SEMICONDUCTING BEHAVIOR; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TUNGSTEN DISULFIDE;

NANORIBBONS;

EID: 84947901589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20531583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/2/1/015002     Document Type: Article

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