Edge currents shunt the insulating bulk in gapped graphene

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Zhu, M J ^a   Kretinin, A V ^a   Thompson, M D ^b   Bandurin, D A ^a   Hu, S ^a   Yu, G L ^a   Birkbeck, J ^a   Mishchenko, A ^a   Vera Marun, I J ^a   Watanabe, K ^c   Taniguchi, T ^c   Polini, M ^d   Prance, J R ^b   Novoselov, K S ^a   Geim, A K ^a   Shalom, M Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

CARBON; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; GEOMETRY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; GEOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 85013157973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14552     Document Type: Article

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