Topological crystalline insulator PbxSn1-xTe thin films on SrTiO3 (001) with tunable Fermi levels

APL Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Guo, Hua ^a   Yan, Chen Hui ^a,b   Liu, Jun Wei ^a   Wang, Zhen Yu ^a   Wu, Rui ^a   Zhang, Zhi Dong ^a   Wang, Li Li ^c   He, Ke ^a   Ma, Xu Cun ^a   Ji, Shuai Hua ^a   Duan, Wen Hui ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   Xue, Qi Kun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF METAL RESEARCH   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84903287007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2166532X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4876637     Document Type: Article

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