Te-seeded growth of few-quintuple layer Bi2Te3 nanoplates

Nano Research

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1243-1253

  Zhao, Yanyuan ^a   de la Mata, Maria ^b   Qiu, Richard L J ^c   Zhang, Jun ^a   Wen, Xinglin ^a   Magen, Cesar ^d   Gao, Xuan P A ^c   Arbiol, Jordi ^b,e   Xiong, Qihua ^a,f  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA ICMAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bi2Te3; epitaxial growth; few quintuple layer; optical contrast; Te nucleation seed; TEM cross section

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919926783     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0487-y     Document Type: Article

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