Remarkable electronic and optical anisotropy of layered 1T’-WTe2 2D materials

Qiankun Zhang, Rongjie Zhang, Jiancui Chen, Wanfu Shen, Chunhua An, Xiaodong Hu, Mingli Dong, Jing Liu and Lianqing Zhu
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1745–1753. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.10.170

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Remarkable electronic and optical anisotropy of layered 1T’-WTe2 2D materials
Qiankun Zhang, Rongjie Zhang, Jiancui Chen, Wanfu Shen, Chunhua An, Xiaodong Hu, Mingli Dong, Jing Liu and Lianqing Zhu
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1745–1753. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.10.170

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Zhang, Q.; Zhang, R.; Chen, J.; Shen, W.; An, C.; Hu, X.; Dong, M.; Liu, J.; Zhu, L. Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 1745–1753. doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.170

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