Imaging currents in HgTe quantum wells in the quantum spin Hall regime

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 787-791

  Nowack, Katja C ^a,b   Spanton, Eric M ^a,b   Baenninger, Matthias ^a,b   König, Markus ^a,b   Kirtley, John R ^a   Kalisky, Beena ^a,c   Ames, C ^d   Leubner, Philipp ^d   Brüne, Christoph ^d   Buhmann, Hartmut ^d   Molenkamp, Laurens W ^d   Goldhaber Gordon, David ^a,b   Moler, Kathryn A ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM THEORY;

BALLISTIC TRANSPORTS; BULK CONDUCTIVITIES; CURRENT FLOWING; EDGE CHANNELS; MATERIALS SYSTEMS; NON-LOCAL TRANSPORT MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM SPIN HALLS; VERSATILE METHODS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

MERCURY; TELLURIUM;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE;

ELECTRICITY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MERCURY; MODELS, CHEMICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; TELLURIUM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84883201786     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3682     Document Type: Article

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