Thermoelectric probe for Fermi surface topology in the three-dimensional Rashba semiconductor BiTeI
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T. Ideue,1 L. Ye,2 J. G. Checkelsky,2 H. Murakawa,3 Y. Kaneko,4 and Y. Tokura1,4 1Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan 2Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 3Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan 4RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan (Received 6 June 2015; published 23 September 2015)
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تاریخ انتشار 2015