Producing air-stable monolayers of phosphorene and their defect engineering

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Pei, Jiajie ^a,b   Gai, Xin ^a   Yang, Jiong ^a   Wang, Xibin ^b   Yu, Zongfu ^c   Choi, Duk Yong ^a   Luther Davies, Barry ^a   Lu, Yuerui ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FILM; OXYGEN; PLASMA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ENGINEERING; ILLUMINATION; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTON; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84955507460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10450     Document Type: Article

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