Robust surface state transport in thin bismuth nanoribbons

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ning, Wei ^a   Kong, Fengyu ^a   Han, Yuyan ^a   Du, Haifeng ^a   Yang, Jiyong ^a   Tian, Mingliang ^a,b   Zhang, Yuheng ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b School of Electronic Science and Engineering   (China)

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EID: 84923288235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07086     Document Type: Article

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