Spectroscopic evidence for a type II Weyl semimetallic state in MoTe 2

Nature Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1155-1160

  Huang, Lunan ^a   McCormick, Timothy M ^b   Ochi, Masayuki ^c   Zhao, Zhiying ^d   Suzuki, Michi To ^e   Arita, Ryotaro ^e,f   Wu, Yun ^a   Mou, Daixiang ^a   Cao, Huibo ^g   Yan, Jiaqiang ^g,h   Trivedi, Nandini ^b   Kaminski, Adam ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; IODINE; METALLOIDS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ANGLE RESOLVED PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON BANDS; HOLE AND ELECTRON POCKETS; LOW-ENERGY STATE; MOMENTUM SPACES; SPECTROSCOPIC EVIDENCE; SURFACE TERMINATION; TOUCHING POINTS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84978086467     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4685     Document Type: Article

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