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Nearly massless electrons in the silicon interface with a metal film

Keun Su Kim1, Sung Chul Jung, Myung Ho Kang

  • 1Center for Atomic Wires and Layers, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Korea.

Physical Review Letters
|September 28, 2010
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