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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-23626-2
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Ph.D.
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
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George Mason University
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2017
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Atomically thin materials such as hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have attracted a lot of interest since the discovery of Graphene. Potential use of Graphene in semiconductor industry has been hindered by the fact that graphene is a semi metal with zero band gap. The difficulties in engineering band gap in graphene turn the focus light to inherent semiconducting two-dimensional (2D) materials; TMDCs.