Evolution of Landau levels into edge states in graphene

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Li, Guohong ^a   Luican Mayer, Adina ^a   Abanin, Dmitry ^b   Levitov, Leonid ^c   Andrei, Eva Y ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE;

ELECTRON; GRAPHITE; MAGNETIC FIELD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; LANDAU LEVEL; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84877728695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2767     Document Type: Article

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