Topological crystalline insulator nanomembrane with strain-tunable band gap

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 967-979

  Qian, Xiaofeng ^a   Fu, Liang ^b   Li, Ju ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

DFT calculations; elastic strain engineering; infrared photodetector; metal insulator transition; pseudoheterostructure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925491675     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-014-0578-9     Document Type: Article

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