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SUBMITTER: Lin YC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4396367 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20150402
As defects frequently govern the properties of crystalline solids, the precise microscopic knowledge of defect atomic structure is of fundamental importance. We report a new class of point defects in single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides that can be created through 60° rotations of metal-chalcogen bonds in the trigonal prismatic lattice, with the simplest among them being a three-fold symmetric trefoil-like defect. The defects, which are inherently related to the crystal symmetry of tran ...[more]