Tunable Dirac cone in the topological insulator Bi2-xSb xTe3-ySey

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Arakane, T ^a   Sato, T ^a   Souma, S ^a   Kosaka, K ^a   Nakayama, K ^a   Komatsu, M ^a   Takahashi, T ^a   Ren, Zhi ^b   Segawa, Kouji ^b   Ando, Yoichi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY DERIVATIVE; BISMUTH DERIVATIVE; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; TELLURIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84863011037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1639     Document Type: Article

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