Bandgap opening in few-layered monoclinic MoTe 2

Nature Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 482-486

  Keum, Dong Hoon ^a   Cho, Suyeon ^a   Kim, Jung Ho ^a   Choe, Duk Hyun ^b   Sung, Ha Jun ^b   Kan, Min ^a   Kang, Haeyong ^a   Hwang, Jae Yeol ^a   Kim, Sung Wng ^a   Yang, Heejun ^a   Chang, K J ^b   Lee, Young Hee ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ENERGY GAP; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; SEMICONDUCTING TELLURIUM; TOPOLOGY; TRANSITION METALS;

ELECTRONIC PHASE TRANSITION; LAYERED TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; MONOCLINIC STRUCTURES; PEIERLS DISTORTION; QUANTUM SPIN HALLS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITION;

SEMICONDUCTING TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84930383140     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3314     Document Type: Article

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