Pressure-induced semiconducting to metallic transition in multilayered molybdenum disulphide

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 5; no. 1; p. 3731
• Main Authors: Nayak, Avinash P., Bhattacharyya, Swastibrata, Zhu, Jie, Liu, Jin, Wu, Xiang, Pandey, Tribhuwan, Jin, Changqing, Singh, Abhishek K., Akinwande, Deji, Lin, Jung-Fu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 07.05.2014; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 119/118; 121/143; 140/133; 639/301/119/995; 639/925/357; Humanities and Social Sciences; Molybdenum; multidisciplinary; Nanotechnology; Optical properties; Science; Science (multidisciplinary)

Molybdenum disulphide is a layered transition metal dichalcogenide that has recently raised considerable interest due to its unique semiconducting and opto-electronic properties. Although several theoretical studies have suggested an electronic phase transition in molybdenum disulphide, there has be...