PbTe/PbSnTe heterostructures as analogs of topological insulators

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 20, 2012, Pages

  Buczko, Ryszard ^a   Cywiński, Åukasz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

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EID: 84861808557     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.85.205319     Document Type: Article

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