Evidence of topological two-dimensional metallic surface states in thin bismuth nanoribbons

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 7506-7512

  Ning, Wei ^a   Kong, Fengyu ^a   Xi, Chuanying ^a   Graf, David ^b   Du, Haifeng ^a   Han, Yuyan ^a   Yang, Jiyong ^a   Yang, Kun ^b   Tian, Mingliang ^a   Zhang, Yuheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bismuth nanoribbon; magnetoresistance; Shubnikov de Haas quantum oscillations; surface state; topological insulator

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE STATES; TOPOLOGY;

METALLIC SURFACE; QUANTUM OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM PHENOMENA; QUANTUM PROPERTIES; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; SHUBNIKOV-DE HAAS; SPIN-ORBITAL INTERACTIONS; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS;

NANORIBBONS;

EID: 84904748635     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn502813y     Document Type: Article

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