Emergence of decoupled surface transport channels in bulk insulating Bi2Se3 thin films

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Brahlek, Matthew ^a   Koirala, Nikesh ^a   Salehi, Maryam ^b   Bansal, Namrata ^c   Oh, Seongshik ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Piscataway   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

COUPLING EFFECT; DIRECT COUPLING; ELECTRIC COUPLING; METALLIC SURFACE; PARASITIC COUPLINGS; SURFACE TRANSPORT; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS; TOPOLOGICAL STATE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84904093667     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.026801     Document Type: Article

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