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SUBMITTER: Bauer S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4844676 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bauer Sebastian S Bobisch Christian A CA
Nature communications 20160421
The use of three-dimensional topological insulators for disruptive technologies critically depends on the dissipationless transport of electrons at the surface, because of the suppression of backscattering at defects. However, in real devices, defects are unavoidable and scattering at angles other than 180° is allowed for such materials. Until now, this has been studied indirectly by bulk measurements and by the analysis of the local density of states in close vicinity to defect sites. Here, we ...[more]