Observation of a three-dimensional topological dirac semimetal phase in high-mobility cd3 as2

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Neupane, Madhab ^a   Xu, Su Yang ^a   Sankar, Raman ^b   Alidoust, Nasser ^a   Bian, Guang ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Belopolski, Ilya ^a   Chang, Tay Rong ^c   Jeng, Horng Tay ^c,d   Lin, Hsin ^e   Bansil, Arun ^f   Chou, Fangcheng ^b   Hasan, M Zahid ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; CADMIUM; GRAPHITE; MOBILITY; TOPOLOGY;

ANGLE RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FERMION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSICS; SPECTROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL TOPOLOGICAL DIRAC SEMIMETAL SYSTEM;

EID: 84900017121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4786     Document Type: Article

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