Bi(111) Thin Film with Insulating Interior but Metallic Surfaces
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Bi(111) thin film with insulating interior but metallic surfaces.
The electrical conductance of epitaxial Bi thin films grown on BaF(2)(111) by molecular beam epitaxy has been systematically investigated as a function of both film thickness (4-540 nm) and temperature (5-300 K). Unlike bulk Bi as a prototypical semimetal, the Bi thin films up to 90 nm are found to be insulating in the interior but metallic on the surface. This finding not only has unambiguousl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.109.166805