Creation of helical Dirac fermions by interfacing two gapped systems of ordinary fermions

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Wang, Z F ^a   Yao, Meng Yu ^b   Ming, Wenmei ^a   Miao, Lin ^b   Zhu, Fengfeng ^b   Liu, Canhua ^b   Gao, C L ^b   Qian, Dong ^b   Jia, Jin Feng ^b   Liu, Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

INSULATION; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BILAYER MEMBRANE; DENSITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FERMION; FILM; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS;

EID: 84874627594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2387     Document Type: Article

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