Large insulating gap in topological insulators induced by negative spin-orbit splitting

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Vidal, Julien ^a   Zhang, Xiuwen ^b   Stevanović, Vladan ^a   Luo, Jun Wei ^a   Zunger, Alex ^c  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 84865677070     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.075316     Document Type: Article

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