Heterointerface Screening Effects between Organic Monolayers and Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 2476-2484

  Zheng, Yu Jie ^a   Huang, Yu Li ^a,b   Chen, Yifeng ^a,c   Zhao, Weijie ^a   Eda, Goki ^a,c   Spataru, Catalin D ^d   Zhang, Wenjing ^e   Chang, Yung Huang ^f   Li, Lain Jong ^g   Chi, Dongzhi ^b   Quek, Su Ying ^a,c,h   Wee, Andrew Thye Shen ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^h INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

energy level alignment; first principle calculations; organic inorganic interface; scanning tunneling microscopy spectroscopy; screening effects; two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE FILMS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; GOLD; HYBRID MATERIALS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MONOLAYERS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SUBSTRATES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT; FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; ORGANIC-INORGANIC INTERFACE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY/SPECTROSCOPY; SCREENING EFFECT; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES;

TRANSITION METALS;

EID: 84960157520     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b07314     Document Type: Article

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