journal article·2026-08

Lone-pair-induced asymmetry governs coupled phonon and electronic transport in quasi-two-dimensional XI 3 (X=As,Sb) halides

Haolin Pan, Hao Huang, Geng Li, Zonglin Gu, Yu Wu, Shuming Zeng

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