Why is the bulk resistivity of topological insulators so small?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Skinner, Brian ^a   Chen, Tianran ^a   Shklovskii, B I ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS-GROWN; BANDBENDING; BULK RESISTIVITY; COULOMB POTENTIAL; HEAVILY DOPED; LOCALIZATION LENGTH; N-TYPE CRYSTALS; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS; VARIABLE RANGE HOPPING;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY GAP;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS;

EID: 84868020435     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.176801     Document Type: Article

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