Group 14 element-based non-centrosymmetric quantum spin Hall insulators with large bulk gap

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3412-3420

  Ma, Yandong ^a   Kou, Liangzhi ^b   Du, Aijun ^b   Heine, Thomas ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

band inversion; Dirac states; Group 14 honeycomb lattice; strain engineering; topological insulators; two dimensional crystal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943365543     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0842-7     Document Type: Article

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