Quantum spin hall insulator state in HgTe quantum wells

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5851, 2007, Pages 766-770

  König, Markus ^a   Wiedmann, Steffen ^a   Brüne, Christoph ^a   Roth, Andreas ^a   Buhmann, Hartmut ^a   Molenkamp, Laurens W ^a   Qi, Xiao Liang ^b   Zhang, Shou Cheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; METAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 38949129028     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1148047     Document Type: Article

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