Ideal two-dimensional electron systems with a giant Rashba-type spin splitting in real materials: Surfaces of bismuth tellurohalides

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 24, 2012, Pages

  Eremeev, S V ^a,b,c   Nechaev, I A ^b,c   Koroteev, Yu M ^a,b,c   Echenique, P M ^c,d,e   Chulkov, E V ^c,d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF STRENGTH PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^b TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^e CENTRO MIXTO CSIC UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INELASTIC MEAN FREE PATH; POINT ENERGIES; QUASIPARTICLES; RASHBA EFFECTS; SPIN ASYMMETRY; SPIN DEGREES OF FREEDOM; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; SPIN ORIENTATIONS; SPIN SPLITTINGS; SPINTRONIC DEVICE; SURFACE STATE BANDS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON SYSTEM;

BISMUTH; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; TELLURIUM; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS;

EID: 84862564479     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.246802     Document Type: Article

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