Electrical and Optical Properties of Germanene on Single-Layer BeO Substrate

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 120, Issue 36, 2016, Pages 20350-20356

  Chen, Xianping ^a,b   Sun, Xiang ^a   Jiang, Junke ^a   Liang, Qiuhua ^b   Yang, Qun ^b   Meng, Ruishen ^b  

^a GUILIN UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY GAP; GERMANIUM; MONOLAYERS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

BANDGAP MODULATION; ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY; GEOMETRIC STRUCTURE; INTERLAYER DISTANCE; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84987957296     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b06161     Document Type: Article

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