Semimetallic two-dimensional boron allotrope with massless Dirac fermions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Zhou, Xiang Feng ^a,b   Dong, Xiao ^a,b   Oganov, Artem R ^b,c,d   Zhu, Qiang ^b   Tian, Yongjun ^e   Wang, Hui Tian ^a,f  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO; DIRAC CONES; ENERGETIC STABILITY; MASSLESS DIRAC FERMIONS; NONZERO THICKNESS; SHEET STRUCTURE; SILICENE; SUB-LATTICES;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BORON;

EID: 84897734619     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.085502     Document Type: Article

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