Controlled Sculpture of Black Phosphorus Nanoribbons

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 5687-5695

  Masih Das, Paul ^a   Danda, Gopinath ^a,b   Cupo, Andrew ^c   Parkin, William M ^a   Liang, Liangbo ^d   Kharche, Neerav ^c   Ling, Xi ^e   Huang, Shengxi ^e   Dresselhaus, Mildred S ^e   Meunier, Vincent ^c   Drndić, Marija ^a  

^a Department of Physics and Astronomy ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

armchair; few layer black phosphorus; nanopore; nanoribbon; phosphorene; zigzag

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN SITU PROCESSING; NANOPORES; PHOSPHORUS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ARMCHAIR; CRYSTAL DIRECTION; IN SITU TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM); LIQUID EXFOLIATIONS; NANORIBBON; PHOSPHORENE; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS; ZIGZAG;

NANORIBBONS;

EID: 84976600215     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b02435     Document Type: Article

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