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SUBMITTER: Nechaev IA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5333630 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170302
The quantum spin Hall insulators predicted ten years ago and now experimentally observed are instrumental for a break- through in nanoelectronics due to non-dissipative spin-polarized electron transport through their edges. For this transport to persist at normal conditions, the insulators should possess a sufficiently large band gap in a stable topological phase. Here, we theoretically show that quantum spin Hall insulators can be realized in ultra-thin films constructed from a trivial band ins ...[more]