Surface-dominated transport on a bulk topological insulator

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3755-3760

  Barreto, Lucas ^a   Kühnemund, Lisa ^b   Edler, Frederik ^b   Tegenkamp, Christoph ^b   Mi, Jianli ^a   Bremholm, Martin ^a   Iversen, Bo Brummerstedt ^a   Frydendahl, Christian ^a   Bianchi, Marco ^a   Hofmann, Philip ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

angle resolved photoemission; nanoscale four point probe; scanning tunneling spectroscopy; Topological insulators

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE STATES;

ANGLE-RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION; BULK CONDUCTIVITIES; CLEAN SURFACES; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; FOUR-POINT PROBE; METALLIC SURFACE; SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84903978213     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl501489m     Document Type: Article

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