Dichroic spin-valley photocurrent in monolayer molybdenum disulphide

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Eginligil, Mustafa ^a   Cao, Bingchen ^a   Wang, Zilong ^a,b   Shen, Xiaonan ^a   Cong, Chunxiao ^a   Shang, Jingzhi ^a   Soci, Cesare ^a,b   Yu, Ting ^a,c,d  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM DISULPHIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMICAL REACTION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENERGY FLOW; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MOLYBDENUM; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; POLARIZATION; SENSOR;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 84986596526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8636     Document Type: Article

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