Topological edge states at a tilt boundary in gated multilayer graphene

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Vaezi, Abolhassan ^a   Liang, Yufeng ^b   Ngai, Darryl H ^a   Yang, Li ^b   Kim, Eun Ah ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphene; Materials Science; Topological Insulators

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; MULTILAYER GRAPHENE; STRUCTURAL DEFECT; SUBGAP CONDUCTANCES; SYMMETRY CHANGES; TIGHT BINDING MODEL; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS; TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS;

CONCRETE MIXING; GRAPHENE; MATERIALS SCIENCE; MULTILAYERS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84883530879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.021018     Document Type: Article

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