Design principles and coupling mechanisms in the 2D quantum well topological insulator HgTe/CdTe

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 17, 2010, Pages

  Luo, Jun Wei ^a   Zunger, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-D SYSTEMS; ATOMISTIC CALCULATIONS; BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; BULK MATERIALS; COUPLING MECHANISM; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; DISPERSION CURVES; HGTE/CDTE; INTERFACE STATE; LIGHT HOLES; LOCALIZED STATE; QUANTUM WELL; QUANTUM-WELL STATE; TOPOLOGICAL STATE;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TOPOLOGY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 77958135097     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.176805     Document Type: Article

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