Spin-filtered edge states with an electrically tunable gap in a two-dimensional topological crystalline insulator

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 178-183

  Liu, Junwei ^a,b   Hsieh, Timothy H ^b   Wei, Peng ^b,c   Duan, Wenhui ^a   Moodera, Jagadeesh ^b,c   Fu, Liang ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE INSULATORS; DEVICE APPLICATION; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; METALLIC SURFACE; MIRROR SYMMETRY; OPERATION SPEED; SPINTRONIC APPLICATIONS; TOPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LEAD; MIRRORS; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS; TIN;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84892988174     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3828     Document Type: Article

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