Zener Tunneling and Photoresponse of a WS2/Si van der Waals Heterojunction

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 28, 2016, Pages 18375-18382

  Lan, Changyong ^a   Li, Chun ^a   Wang, Shuai ^a   He, Tianying ^a   Jiao, Tianpeng ^b   Wei, Dapeng ^b   Jing, Wenkui ^c   Li, Luying ^c   Liu, Yong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

2D crystals; photodetector; van der Waals heterostructures; WS2; Zener diode

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; ZENER DIODES;

2-D CRYSTALS; INFORMATION DEVICES; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; PHOTORESPONSIVITY; STRONG ELECTRIC FIELDS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS; VAN DER WAALS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 84979496895     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b05109     Document Type: Article

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