Surface Charge Transfer Doping of Monolayer Phosphorene via Molecular Adsorption

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 4701-4710

  He, Yuanyuan ^a   Xia, Feifei ^a   Shao, Zhibin ^a   Zhao, Jianwei ^b   Jie, Jiansheng ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

density functional theory; electronic transport; F4TCNQ; monolayer phosphorene; nonequilibrium Green's function formalism

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MOLECULES; MOLYBDENUM OXIDE; MONOLAYERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SURFACE CHARGE; TUNING;

ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; ELECTROPHILIC MOLECULES; F4-TCNQ; HIGH PERFORMANCE DEVICES; MOLECULAR ADSORPTION; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION FORMALISM; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

NANOMATERIAL;

ADSORPTION; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADSORPTION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84949033974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01920     Document Type: Article

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