Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Raman signatures of inversion symmetry breaking and structural phase transition in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2

  • Kenan Zhang,
  • Changhua Bao,
  • Qiangqiang Gu,
  • Xiao Ren,
  • Haoxiong Zhang,
  • Ke Deng,
  • Yang Wu,
  • Yuan Li,
  • Ji Feng,
  • Shuyun Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13552
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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To experimentally confirm the predicted type-II Weyl fermions in transition metal dichalcogenide, the evidence of inversion symmetry breaking is required. Here, Zhanget al. report Raman spectroscopic evidence for the inversion symmetry breaking in MoTe2.