Large Rashba spin splitting of a metallic surface-state band on a semiconductor surface

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Yaji, Koichiro ^a,b   Ohtsubo, Yoshiyuki ^a   Hatta, Shinichiro ^a,b   Okuyama, Hiroshi ^a   Miyamoto, Koji ^c   Okuda, Taichi ^c   Kimura, Akio ^c   Namatame, Hirofumi ^c   Taniguchi, Masaki ^c   Aruga, Tetsuya ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; METAL;

ACCELERATION; ANGLE RESOLVED PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY; ELECTRONICS; MASS; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84941794216     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1016     Document Type: Article

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