Quantum spin hall states in stanene/Ge(111)

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Fang, Yimei ^a   Huang, Zhi Quan ^b   Hsu, Chia Hsiu ^b   Li, Xiaodan ^a   Xu, Yixu ^a   Zhou, Yinghui ^a   Wu, Shunqing ^a   Chuang, Feng Chuan ^b   Zhu, Zi Zhong ^a,c  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Department of Physics National Sun Yat Sen University ^*  (China)

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EID: 84942038193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14196     Document Type: Article

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