Pith Number

pith:VMETKH3R

pith:2010:VMETKH3RPNCOHCUYGRYBQVHFH3

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Mechanically-Exfoliated Stacks of Thin Films of Bismuth Telluride Topological Insulators with Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance

Alexander A. Balandin, Desalegne Teweldebrhan, Vivek Goyal

arxiv:1009.1788 v1 · 2010-09-09 · cond-mat.mtrl-sci · cond-mat.mes-hall

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:05:32.629991Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab09351f717b44e38a9834701854e53efad9c558a7aa0df02331307eb1e7b8d7

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.1788 · arxiv_version: 1009.1788v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.1788 · pith_short_12: VMETKH3RPNCO · pith_short_16: VMETKH3RPNCOHCUY · pith_short_8: VMETKH3R

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VMETKH3RPNCOHCUYGRYBQVHFH3 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ab09351f717b44e38a9834701854e53efad9c558a7aa0df02331307eb1e7b8d7

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mes-hall"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.mtrl-sci",
    "submitted_at": "2010-09-09T14:09:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f15a72f6fb4e4d1100e89d83109876da823194f5fe8a4fbc01223f17ba3161aa"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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