Stacked topological insulator built from bismuth-based graphene sheet analogues

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 422-425

  Rasche, Bertold ^a   Isaeva, Anna ^a   Ruck, Michael ^a,b   Borisenko, Sergey ^c   Zabolotnyy, Volodymyr ^c   Büchner, Bernd ^a,c   Koepernik, Klaus ^c   Ortix, Carmine ^c   Richter, Manuel ^c   Van Den Brink, Jeroen ^a,c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^c IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; ENERGY GAP; GRAPHENE; RHODIUM; TOPOLOGY;

BULK MATERIALS; CANDIDATE MATERIALS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS; ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE; GRAPHENE LIKES; GRAPHENE SHEETS; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS;

EID: 84876681632     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3570     Document Type: Article

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