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Atomically thin p–n junctions

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Van der Waals heterostructures consisting of a single MoS2 monolayer and a single WSe2 monolayer can be used to form p–n junctions.

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Figure 1: Atomically thin p–n junctions in van der Waals heterostructures.

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  1. Su-Fei Shi and Feng Wang are in the Department of Physics, University of California, 366 LeConte Hall #7300, Berkeley, California 94720-7300, USA,

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Shi, SF., Wang, F. Atomically thin p–n junctions. Nature Nanotech 9, 664–665 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.186

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