Environmental Effects on the Electrical Characteristics of Back-Gated WSe2 Field-Effect Transistors
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experimental
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Urban, F.; Martucciello, N.; Peters, L.; McEvoy, N.; Di Bartolomeo, A. Environmental Effects on the Electrical Characteristics of Back-Gated WSe2 Field-Effect Transistors. Nanomaterials 2018, 8, 901. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8110901
Urban F, Martucciello N, Peters L, McEvoy N, Di Bartolomeo A. Environmental Effects on the Electrical Characteristics of Back-Gated WSe2 Field-Effect Transistors. Nanomaterials. 2018; 8(11):901. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8110901
Chicago/Turabian StyleUrban, Francesca, Nadia Martucciello, Lisanne Peters, Niall McEvoy, and Antonio Di Bartolomeo. 2018. "Environmental Effects on the Electrical Characteristics of Back-Gated WSe2 Field-Effect Transistors" Nanomaterials 8, no. 11: 901. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8110901