Spin-polarized tunneling current through a thin film of a topological insulator in a parallel magnetic field

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 16, 2012, Pages

  Pershoguba, Sergey S ^a   Yakovenko, Victor M ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

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EID: 84867088820     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.165404     Document Type: Article

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