Tunable multifunctional topological insulators in ternary Heusler compounds

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 541-545

  Chadov, Stanislav ^a   Qi, Xiaoliang ^b,c   Kübler, Jürgen ^d   Fecher, Gerhard H ^a   Felser, Claudia ^a   Zhang, Shou Cheng ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; ORBITS; QUANTUM HALL EFFECT; QUANTUM THEORY; SPIN HALL EFFECT; TOPOLOGY;

ANOMALOUS HALL EFFECTS; BINARY SEMICONDUCTORS; FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; HEAVY FERMION BEHAVIOUR; QUANTUM SPIN HALL EFFECT; QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES; TERNARY SEMICONDUCTORS; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 77953914235     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2770     Document Type: Article

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