Janus monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 744-749

  Lu, Ang Yu ^a   Zhu, Hanyu ^b   Xiao, Jun ^b   Chuu, Chih Piao ^c   Han, Yimo ^d   Chiu, Ming Hui ^a   Cheng, Chia Chin ^e,f   Yang, Chih Wen ^a   Wei, Kung Hwa ^f   Yang, Yiming ^b,g   Wang, Yuan ^b,g   Sokaras, Dimosthenis ^h   Nordlund, Dennis ^h   Yang, Peidong ^b,g   Muller, David A ^d,i   Chou, Mei Yin ^c,j,k   Zhang, Xiang ^b,g   Li, Lain Jong ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^e RESEARCH CENTER FOR APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^j NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^k GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC FIELDS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MONOLAYERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; VAN DER WAALS FORCES; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRONIC BAND GAPS; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; PIEZORESPONSE FORCE MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL CONFIGURATIONS; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

TRANSITION METALS;

MOLYBDENUM; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; SELENIUM; SULFUR; TRANSITION ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDE MONOLAYER; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 85026870772     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2017.100     Document Type: Article

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