Topological insulators in Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 with a single Dirac cone on the surface

Nature Physics - Tập 5 Số 6 - Trang 438-442 - 2009
Haijun Zhang1, Chao‐Xing Liu2, Xiao‐Liang Qi3, Xi Dai1, Zhong Fang1, Shou-Cheng Zhang3
1Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
2Center for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
3Department of Physics, McCullough Building, Stanford University, Stanford California 94305-4045, USA.

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