Picosecond photoresponse in van der Waals heterostructures

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 42-46

  Massicotte, M ^a   Schmidt, P ^a   Vialla, F ^a   Schadler K G ^a   Reserbat Plantey, A ^a   Watanabe, K ^b   Taniguchi, T ^b   Tielrooij, K J ^a   Koppens, F H L ^a  

^a BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; GRAPHENE; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; OPTOELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; PHOTO-DETECTION EFFICIENCIES; PHOTOCURRENT MEASUREMENT; PHOTOEXCITED CARRIERS; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CRYSTALS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

TRANSITION METALS;

GRAPHENE; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DEVICES; EXTRACTION; HETEROSTRUCTURE; MEASUREMENT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PICOSECOND PHOTORESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; THICKNESS; VELOCITY;

EID: 84954384112     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.227     Document Type: Article

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