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SUBMITTER: Logan JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4931221 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160627
The discovery of topological insulators, materials with bulk band gaps and protected cross-gap surface states in compounds such as Bi2Se3, has generated much interest in identifying topological surface states (TSSs) in other classes of materials. In particular, recent theoretical calculations suggest that TSSs may be found in half-Heusler ternary compounds. If experimentally realizable, this would provide a materials platform for entirely new heterostructure spintronic devices that make use of t ...[more]