A tunable topological insulator in the spin helical Dirac transport regime

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7259, 2009, Pages 1101-1105

  Hsieh, D ^a   Xia, Y ^a   Qian, D ^a,c   Wray, L ^a   Dil, J H ^d,e   Meier, F ^d,e   Osterwalder, J ^e   Patthey, L ^d   Checkelsky, J G ^a   Ong, N P ^a   Fedorov, A V ^f   Lin, H ^g   Bansil, A ^g   Grauer, D ^a   Hor, Y S ^a   Cava, R J ^a   Hasan, M Z ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; GRAPHENE;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BISMUTH; CONDENSATE; ELECTRON; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INSULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY; TOPOLOGY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; FERMION; INSULATOR ELEMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 69349084799     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08234     Document Type: Article

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