{"id":304306,"date":"2016-08-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=c1f0083b033a0961b8992b9091ec7aa2"},"modified":"2016-08-19T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T14:00:00","slug":"strain-engineering-of-the-band-gap-of-hgte-quantum-wells-using-superlattice-virtual-substrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=304306","title":{"rendered":"Strain Engineering of the Band Gap of HgTe Quantum Wells Using Superlattice Virtual Substrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s): Philipp Leubner, Lukas Lunczer, Christoph Br\u00fcne, Hartmut Buhmann, and Laurens W. Molenkamp<\/p>\n<p>The band gap of HgTe quantum wells can be controlled by adjusting their strain via a substrate lattice mismatch. \u200bThe achieved band gap of 55 meV is well above room temperature thermal energy, which may allow for technical applications of these 2D topological insulators.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d22izw7byeupn1.cloudfront.net\/journals\/PRL\/key_images\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.117.086403.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n<p>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 086403] Published Fri Aug 19, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s): Philipp Leubner, Lukas Lunczer, Christoph Br&uuml;ne, Hartmut Buhmann, and Laurens W. Molenkamp<\/p>\n<p>The band gap of HgTe quantum wells can be controlled by adjusting their strain via a substrate lattice mismatch. &#8203;The achieved band gap of 55 meV is well above room temperature thermal energy, which may allow for technical applications of these 2D topological insulators.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d22izw7byeupn1.cloudfront.net\/journals\/PRL\/key_images\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.117.086403.png\" width=\"200\" height='\"100\"'><br \/>[Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 086403] Published Fri Aug 19, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-304306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-teadus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}