Stacked bilayer phosphorene: Strain-induced quantum spin Hall state and optical measurement

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Tian ^a,b   Lin, Jia He ^a,b   Yu, Yan Mei ^a   Chen, Xiang Rong ^b   Liu, Wu Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84941662228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep13927     Document Type: Article

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