Three Dirac points on the (110) surface of the topological insulator Bi1-xSbx

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhu, Xie Gang ^a   Stensgaard, Malthe ^a   Barreto, Lucas ^a   Silva, Wendell Simoes E ^a,b   Ulstrup, Søren ^a   Michiardi, Matteo ^a   Bianchi, Marco ^a   Dendzik, Maciej ^a,c   Hofmann, Philip ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE-RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION; FERMI CONTOURS; METALLIC SURFACE; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; SURFACE BRILLOUIN ZONES; SURFACE ORIENTATION; TIGHT-BINDING CALCULATIONS; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTS; INSULATING MATERIALS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; MIRRORS; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE STATES; TOPOLOGY;

SURFACES;

EID: 84886473163     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/10/103011     Document Type: Article

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