Ultrafast helicity control of surface currents in topological insulators with near-unity fidelity

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kastl, Christoph ^a,b   Karnetzky, Christoph ^a,b   Karl, Helmut ^c   Holleitner, Alexander W ^a,b  

^a WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b NANOSYSTEMS INITIATIVE MUNICH NIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; BISMUTH; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; INSULATION; POLARIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LASER; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOCURRENT SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84925710782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7617     Document Type: Article

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