Epitaxial growth of large-gap quantum spin Hall insulator on semiconductor surface

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 40, 2014, Pages 14378-14381

  Zhou, Miao ^a   Ming, Wenmei ^a   Liu, Zheng ^a   Wang, Zhengfei ^a   Li, Ping ^a,b   Liu, Feng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^c Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter ^*  (China)

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EID: 84907764313     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1409701111     Document Type: Article

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