@article{10952c9e2e244011a559aa6278fb1313,
title = "Tellurium-Assisted Low-Temperature Synthesis of MoS2 and WS2 Monolayers",
abstract = "Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a scalable method able to synthesize MoS2 and WS2 monolayers. In this work, we reduced the synthesis temperature by 200 °C only by introducing tellurium (Te) into the CVD process. The as-synthesized MoS2 and WS2 monolayers show high phase purity and crystallinity. The optical and electrical performance of these materials is comparable to those synthesized at higher temperatures. We believe this work will accelerate the industrial synthesis of these semiconducting monolayers.",
author = "Yongji Gong and Zhong Lin and Gonglan Ye and Gang Shi and Simin Feng and Yu Lei and El{\'i}as, {Ana Laura} and Nestor Perea-Lopez and Robert Vajtai and Humberto Terrones and Zheng Liu and Mauricio Terrones and Ajayan, {Pulickel M.}",
note = "Funding Information: P.M.A. and M.T. acknowledge the financial support from the U.S. Army Research Office under MURI ALNOS project No. W911NF-11-1-0362. M.T. also thanks Penn State Center for Nanoscale Science for the seed grant on 2D Layered Materials (DMR-0820404) and Center for 2-Dimensional and Layered Materials at The Pennsylvania State University. A.L.E. and H.T. acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation EFRI 2-DARE grant No. 1433311. We thank Ethan Kahn for his valuable comments on the manuscript. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 American Chemical Society.",
year = "2015",
month = oct,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1021/acsnano.5b05594",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "9",
pages = "11658--11666",
journal = "ACS Nano",
issn = "1936-0851",
publisher = "American Chemical Society",
number = "12",
}