Observation of Landau levels in potassium-intercalated graphite under a zero magnetic field

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Guo, Donghui ^a   Kondo, Takahiro ^a   MacHida, Takahiro ^a   Iwatake, Keigo ^a   Okada, Susumu ^a   Nakamura, Junji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHITE; POTASSIUM;

ARTICLE; DIRAC FERMION; FERMION; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; LANDAU LEVEL; MAGNETIC FIELD; PERIMETER; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PYROLYSIS;

GRAPHITE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; POTASSIUM;

EID: 84866979942     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2072     Document Type: Article

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