Nature Communications (May 2018)

Abnormal band bowing effects in phase instability crossover region of GaSe1-x Te x nanomaterials

  • Hui Cai,
  • Bin Chen,
  • Mark Blei,
  • Shery L. Y. Chang,
  • Kedi Wu,
  • Houlong Zhuang,
  • Sefaattin Tongay

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04328-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Alloys of two-dimensional materials normally occur when two components crystallize in the same phase. Here, the authors observe an anomalous phase instability, accompanied by a band bowing effect, in GaSe1-x Te x alloys on GaAs(111).