Demonstration of surface transport in a hybrid Bi2Se3/Bi2Te3 heterostructure

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Yanfei ^a   Chang, Cui Zu ^b,c   Jiang, Ying ^d   DaSilva, Ashley ^e   Sun, Yi ^a   Wang, Huichao ^a   Xing, Ying ^a   Wang, Yong ^d   He, Ke ^b   Ma, Xucun ^b   Xue, Qi Kun ^b,c   Wang, Jian ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

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CONTROLLED STUDY; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84904361638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03060     Document Type: Article

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