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Large, high quality single-crystals of the new Topological Kondo Insulator, SmB6
| العنوان: | Large, high quality single-crystals of the new Topological Kondo Insulator, SmB6 |
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| المؤلفون: | Hatnean, M. Ciomaga, Lees, M. R., Paul, D. McK., Balakrishnan, G. |
| المصدر: | Scientific Reports 3, 3071 (2013) |
| سنة النشر: | 2013 |
| المجموعة: | Condensed Matter |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons, Condensed Matter - Materials Science |
| الوصف: | SmB6 has recently been predicted to be a Topological Kondo Insulator, the first strongly correlated heavy fermion material to exhibit topological surface states. High quality crystals are necessary to investigate the topological properties of this material. Single crystal growth of the rare earth hexaboride, SmB6, has been carried out by the floating zone technique using a high power xenon arc lamp image furnace. Large, high quality single-crystals are obtained by this technique. The crystals produced by the floating zone technique are free of contamination from flux materials and have been characterised by resistivity and magnetisation measurements. These crystals are ideally suited for the investigation of both the surface and bulk properties of SmB6. Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Scientific Reports |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1038/srep03071 |
| الوصول الحر: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8189Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsarx.1310.8189 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1038/srep03071 |
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