Nonlinear valley and spin currents from fermi pocket anisotropy in 2D crystals

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 15, 2014, Pages

  Yu, Hongyi ^a   Wu, Yue ^a   Liu, Gui Bin ^a,b   Xu, Xiaodong ^c,d   Yao, Wang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC FIELDS; MONOLAYERS; TRANSITION METALS;

CONTROLLED FLOW; CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS; DICHALCOGENIDES; GALLIUM SELENIDES; INTERNAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; THERMAL GENERATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) CRYSTALS;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84907855051     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.156603     Document Type: Article

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