Molecular Beam Epitaxy-Grown SnSe in the Rock-Salt Structure: An Artificial Topological Crystalline Insulator Material

Adv Mater. 2015 Jul 22;27(28):4150-4. doi: 10.1002/adma.201501676. Epub 2015 Jun 8.

Zhenyu Wang¹, Jianfeng Wang¹, Yunyi Zang¹, Qinghua Zhang², Jin-An Shi², Tian Jiang^{1

3}, Yan Gong¹, Can-Li Song¹, Shuai-Hua Ji^{1

4}, Li-Li Wang^{1

4}, Lin Gu^{2

4}, Ke He^{1

4}, Wenhui Duan^{1

4}, Xucun Ma^{1

4}, Xi Chen^{1

4}, Qi-Kun Xue^{1

4}

¹ State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional, Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
² Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
³ College of Opto-Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, 410073, China.
⁴ Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, 100084, P. R. China.

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Keywords: SnSe films; molecular beam epitaxy; rock-salt structures; topological crystalline insulators.