Interfacial Properties of Monolayer and Bilayer MoS 2 Contacts with Metals: Beyond the Energy Band Calculations

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zhong, Hongxia ^a   Quhe, Ruge ^a,c   Wang, Yangyang ^a,e   Ni, Zeyuan ^a   Ye, Meng ^a   Song, Zhigang ^a   Pan, Yuanyuan ^a   Yang, Jinbo ^a,b   Yang, Li ^d   Lei, Ming ^c   Shi, Junjie ^a   Lu, Jing ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter ^*  (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATION; BILAYER MEMBRANE; HEIGHT; INJECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84959299449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep21786     Document Type: Article

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