Extremely large magnetoresistance and ultrahigh mobility in the topological Weyl semimetal candidate NbP

Nature Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 645-649

  Shekhar, Chandra ^a   Nayak, Ajaya K ^a,b   Sun, Yan ^a   Schmidt, Marcus ^a   Nicklas, Michael ^a   Leermakers, Inge ^c   Zeitler, Uli ^c   Skourski, Yurii ^d   Wosnitza, Jochen ^d   Liu, Zhongkai ^e   Chen, Yulin ^f   Schnelle, Walter ^a   Borrmann, Horst ^a   Grin, Yuri ^a   Felser, Claudia ^a   Yan, Binghai ^a,g  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICS OF SOLIDS   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; TOPOLOGY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

ELECTRONIC PHASIS; MAGNETO TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; RELATIVISTIC ELECTRON; SHUBNIKOV-DE-HAAS OSCILLATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALOGUES;

PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84938557366     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3372     Document Type: Article

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