New family of quantum spin hall insulators in two-dimensional transition-metal halide with large nontrivial band gaps

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 7867-7872

  Zhou, Liujiang ^a   Kou, Liangzhi ^b   Sun, Yan ^c   Felser, Claudia ^c   Hu, Feiming ^a,f   Shan, Guangcun ^d   Smith, Sean C ^b   Yan, Binghai ^c,e   Frauenheim, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

band inversion; first principles calculations; gapless edge states; Quantum spin Hall insulator; two dimensional transition metal halide

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ENERGY GAP; GRAPHENE; METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION; METALS; MONOLAYERS; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSITION METALS;

BAND INVERSION; EDGE STATE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; LOW TEMPERATURES; NANOSCALE DEVICE; QUANTUM SPIN HALLS; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

METAL HALIDES;

EID: 84949678140     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b02617     Document Type: Article

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