Defect engineering of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

2D Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Lin, Zhong ^a   Carvalho, Bruno R ^a,b   Kahn, Ethan ^a   Lv, Ruitao ^c   Rao, Rahul ^d,e   Terrones, Humberto ^f   Pimenta, Marcos A ^b   Terrones, Mauricio ^a,g  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UES INC   (United States)

^f Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^g SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Defects; Electronic properties; Molybdenum disulfide; Transition metal dichalcogenides; Two dimensional material

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; SEA ICE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

DEFECT ENGINEERING; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; STRUCTURAL DEFECT; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

DEFECTS;

EID: 84977530088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20531583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/3/2/022002     Document Type: Review

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