Origin of Giant Rashba Effect in Graphene on Pt/SiC
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Rybkina, A.A.; Gogina, A.A.; Tarasov, A.V.; Xin, Y.; Voroshnin, V.Y.; Pudikov, D.A.; Klimovskikh, I.I.; Petukhov, A.E.; Bokai, K.A.; Yuan, C.; et al. Origin of Giant Rashba Effect in Graphene on Pt/SiC. Symmetry 2023, 15, 2052. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15112052
Rybkina AA, Gogina AA, Tarasov AV, Xin Y, Voroshnin VY, Pudikov DA, Klimovskikh II, Petukhov AE, Bokai KA, Yuan C, et al. Origin of Giant Rashba Effect in Graphene on Pt/SiC. Symmetry. 2023; 15(11):2052. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15112052
Chicago/Turabian StyleRybkina, Anna A., Alevtina A. Gogina, Artem V. Tarasov, Ye Xin, Vladimir Yu. Voroshnin, Dmitrii A. Pudikov, Ilya I. Klimovskikh, Anatoly E. Petukhov, Kirill A. Bokai, Chengxun Yuan, and et al. 2023. "Origin of Giant Rashba Effect in Graphene on Pt/SiC" Symmetry 15, no. 11: 2052. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15112052