Electrical generation and control of the valley carriers in a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide
10.1038/nnano.2016.49
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Nature Nanotechnology (297)
Authors 10
  1. Yu Ye (first)
  2. Jun Xiao (additional)
  3. Hailong Wang (additional)
  4. Ziliang Ye (additional)
  5. Hanyu Zhu (additional)
  6. Mervin Zhao (additional)
  7. Yuan Wang (additional)
  8. Jianhua Zhao (additional)
  9. Xiaobo Yin (additional)
  10. Xiang Zhang (additional)
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