Mirror-symmetric magneto-optical kerr rotation using visible light in [(GeTe)2(Sb2Te3)1[n topological superlattices

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bang, Do ^a   Awano, Hiroyuki ^a   Tominaga, Junji ^b   Kolobov, Alexander V ^b   Fons, Paul ^b   Saito, Yuta ^b   Makino, Kotaro ^b   Nakano, Takashi ^b   Hase, Muneaki ^c   Takagaki, Yukihiko ^d   Giussani, Alessandro ^d   Calarco, Raffaella ^d   Murakami, Shuichi ^e  

^a TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 84904662380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05727     Document Type: Article

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