Two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac fermions in graphene¶
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- cite ← Phosphorene: An Unexplored 2D Semiconductor with a High Hole Mobility — The phosphorene paper cites graphene's massless Dirac fermions as the archetype motivating searches for other atomically thin materials with distinctive electronic bands.
- cite ← Emerging Photoluminescence in Monolayer MoS2 — The MoS2 paper uses graphene’s massless Dirac-fermion discovery as a benchmark example of emergent electronic properties in two-dimensional materials.
- cite ← Single-layer MoS2 transistors — Graphene’s massless Dirac fermion transport exemplified the electronic promise of atomically thin materials that the MoS2 transistor work sought to broaden.
- cite ← Raman Spectrum of Graphene and Graphene Layers — The Raman graphene paper cites the massless Dirac fermion work to connect layer-dependent Raman features with graphene's Dirac electronic bands.