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Graphene and its heterostructures exhibit interesting electronic properties and are explored for quantum spin Hall effect(QSHE) and magnetism based device applications. In present work, we propose a heterostructure of graphene encapsulated…

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We report experiments on aluminum nanowires in ultra-high vacuum at room temperature that reveal a periodic spectrum of exceptionally stable structures. Two "magic" series of stable structures are observed: At low conductance, the formation…

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