Enhanced visibility of MoS2, MoSe2, WSe2 and black-phosphorus: Making optical identification of 2D semiconductors easier

Electronics (Switzerland)

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 847-856

  Rubio Bollinger, Gabino ^a,b   Guerrero, Ruben ^c   de Lara, David Perez ^c   Quereda, Jorge ^a   Vaquero Garzon, Luis ^c   Agraït, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Bratschitsch, Rudolf ^d   Castellanos Gomez, Andres ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Black phosphorus; Molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2); Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2); Optical identification; Silicon nitride substrate; Tungsten diselenide (WSe2); Two dimensional semiconductors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958150519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/electronics4040847     Document Type: Article

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