Giant Rashba-type spin splitting in bulk BiTeI

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 521-526

  Ishizaka, K ^a   Bahramy, M S ^b   Murakawa, H ^c   Sakano, M ^a   Shimojima, T ^a   Sonobe, T ^a   Koizumi, K ^a   Shin, S ^a,c   Miyahara, H ^d   Kimura, A ^d   Miyamoto, K ^d   Okuda, T ^d   Namatame, H ^d   Taniguchi, M ^d   Arita, R ^a,b   Nagaosa, N ^a,b   Kobayashi, K ^e   Murakami, Y ^e   Kumai, R ^e,f   Kaneko, Y ^c   Onose, Y ^a,c   Tokura, Y ^a,b,c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS STRUCTURE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SPIN DYNAMICS; SPIN POLARIZATION;

ANGLE RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMIC CONFIGURATION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; POLAR SEMICONDUCTORS; RASHBA SPIN SPLITTING; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON; SPIN DEPENDENT ELECTRONICS; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 79959513945     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3051     Document Type: Article

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