Topological crystalline insulator states in Pb1-xSn xSe

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1023-1027

  Dziawa, P ^a   Kowalski, B J ^a   Dybko, K ^a   Buczko, R ^a   Szczerbakow, A ^a   Szot, M ^a   Lusakowska E ^a   Balasubramanian, T ^b   Wojek, B M ^c   Berntsen, M H ^c   Tjernberg, O ^c   Story, T ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANGLE RESOLVED PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; BULK CRYSTALS; CRYSTALLINE INSULATORS; CRYSTALLINE SYMMETRY; ENERGY DISPERSIONS; HELICAL STATE; METALLIC STATE; NARROW-GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; THEORETICAL RESULT; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS; TOPOLOGICAL PHASE;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; LEAD; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM THEORY; TIN;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84870037398     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3449     Document Type: Article

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