Indirect and direct energy gaps in Kondo semiconductor YbB12

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1954-1957

  Okamura, Hidekazu ^a   Michizawa, Takahiro ^a   Nanba, Takao ^a   Kimura, Shin Ichi ^b   Iga, Fumitoshi ^c   Takabatake, Toshiro ^c  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Indirect gap; Kondo semiconductor; Optical conductivity; YbB12

Indexed keywords

EID: 24644488340     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.74.1954     Document Type: Article

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