Spectroscopic Visualization of Grain Boundaries of Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide by Stacking Bilayers

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 11042-11048

  Park, Seki ^a   Kim, Min Su ^a   Kim, Hyun ^a   Lee, Jubok ^a   Han, Gang Hee ^a   Jung, Jeil ^b   Kim, Jeongyong ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b University of Seoul   (South Korea)

Author keywords

grain boundary; indirect band gap photoluminescence; interlayer coupling; monolayer molybdenum disulfide; stacked bilayer

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN GROWTH; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAPPING; MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ATOMIC RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY; BI-LAYER; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION METHODS; ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; INDIRECT BAND GAP; INTERLAYER COUPLING; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

EID: 84948431923     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04977     Document Type: Article

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