Extremely small energy gap in the quasi-one-dimensional conducting chain compound SrNbO3.41

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 23, 2002, Pages

  Kuntscher, C A ^a,b   Schuppler, S ^a   Haas, P ^b   Gorshunov, B ^b,e   Dressel, M ^b   Grioni, M ^c   Lichtenberg, F ^d   Herrnberger, A ^d   Mayr, F ^d   Mannhart, J ^d  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^e PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; FERMI LEVEL; LIGHT EMISSION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ANGLE-RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION EXPERIMENTS; CHAIN COMPOUND; CHAIN DIRECTION; POLARIZED REFLECTION MEASUREMENTS;

STRONTIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0037011698     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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