Nonradiative Relaxation of Photoexcited Black Phosphorus Is Reduced by Stacking with MoS2: A Time Domain ab Initio Study

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1830-1835

  Long, Run ^a   Guo, Meng ^b   Liu, Lihong ^a   Fang, Weihai ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QILU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY GAP; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHONONS; PHOSPHORUS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

AB INITIO STUDY; DIRECT BAND GAP; ELECTRON PHONON; ELECTRON-HOLE RECOMBINATION; NON-RADIATIVE RELAXATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS; SLOW ELECTRONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84971298312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00757     Document Type: Article

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