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3-D topological insulators (TI) with large spin Hall conductivity have emerged as potential candidates for spintronic applications. Here, we report spin to charge conversion in bilayers of amorphous ferromagnet (FM) Fe_{78}Ga_{13}B_{9}…

We investigate theoretically the spin torque and magnetization dynamic in a thin ferromagnetic (FM) layer with spatially varying magnetization. The FM layer is deposited on the surface of a topological insulator (TI). In the limit of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-29 Ji Chen , Mansoor Bin Abdul Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

Topological Insulator (TI) has recently emerged as an attractive candidate for possible application to spintronic circuits because of its strong spin orbit coupling. TIs are unique materials that have an insulating bulk but conducting…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-31 Ahmed K. Reza , Xuanyao Fong , Zubair Al Azim , Kaushik Roy

Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) are known to carry 2D Dirac-like topological surface states in which spin-momentum locking prohibits backscattering. When thinned down to a few nanometers, the hybridization between the…

This paper reviews recent developments in quantum transport and it presents recent efforts to explore the contribution of topological insulator boundary states to thermoelectricity in Bi$_2$Te$_3$ thin films. Although Bi$_2$Te$_3$ has been…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-16 Prosper Ngabonziza

Topological insulators are quantum materials involving Time-reversal protected surface states(TSS) making them appealing candidates for the design of next generation of highly efficient spintronic devices. The very recent observation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-06 Armando Pezo , Jean-Marie George , Henri Jaffrès

Thermoelectric (TE) devices have been attracting increasing attention because of their ability to convert heat directly to electricity. To date, improving the TE figure of merit remains the key challenge. The advent of the topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 T. H. Wang , H. T. Jeng

We have studied ferromagnetic metal/topological insulator bilayer system to understand magnetization dynamics of ferromagnetic metal (FM) in contact with a topological insulator (TI). At magnetic resonance condition, the precessing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Sayani Pal , Soumik Aon , Subhadip Manna , Sambhu G Nath , Kanav Sharma , Chiranjib Mitra

Topological Insulators (TIs) are unique materials where insulating bulk hosts linearly dispersing surface states protected by the Time-Reversal Symmetry (TRS). These states lead to dissipationless current flow, which makes this class of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-19 Ankita Phutela , Preeti Bhumla , Manjari Jain , Saswata Bhattacharya

Topological insulators (TIs) are new insulating materials with exotic surface states, where the motion of charge carriers is described by the Dirac equations and their spins are locked in a perpendicular direction to their momentum. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 Fei-Xiang Xiang , Xiao-Lin Wang , Shi-Xue Dou

Topological insulators (TIs) are materials with an insulating bulk characterized by a gapped band structure, along with gapless metallic surface states having a Dirac cone with a helical spin structure in momentum space. The helical…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-02 Sumana Paul , Moumita Das , Sujoy Datta , Raja Chakraborty , Prabhat Mandal , P. K. Giri

The large spin orbit coupling in topological insulators results in helical spin-textured Dirac surface states that are attractive for topological spintronics. These states generate an efficient spin-orbit torque on proximal magnetic moments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Yang Lv , James Kally , Delin Zhang , Joon Sue Lee , Mahdi Jamali , Nitin Samarth , Jian-Ping Wang

Topological insulators (TI) have attracted extensive research effort due to their insulating bulk states but conducting surface states. However, investigation and understanding of thermal transport in topological insulators, particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 Zhe Luo , Jifa Tian , Mithun Srinivasan , Yong P. Chen , Xianfan Xu

We report on time-resolved ultrafast optical spectroscopy study of the topological insulator (TI) Bi$_2$Se$_3$. We unravel that a net spin polarization can not only be generated using circularly polarized light via interband transitions…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-26 M. C. Wang , S. Qiao , Z. Jiang , S. N. Luo , J. Qi

Bulk superconductivity has been discovered in Tl_{0.6}Bi_{2}Te_{3}, which is derived from the topological insulator Bi2Te3. The superconducting volume fraction of up to 95% (determined from specific heat) with Tc of 2.28 K was observed. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-17 Zhiwei Wang , A. A. Taskin , Tobias Froelich , Markus Braden , Yoichi Ando

Spin torques at topological insulator (TI)/ferromagnet interfaces have received considerable attention in recent years with a view towards achieving full electrical manipulation of magnetic degrees of freedom. The most important question in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 James H. Cullen , Rhonald Burgos Atencia , Dimitrie Culcer

The surface states of topological insulators (TI) are protected by time reversal symmetry and they display intrinsic spin helicity where the momentum of the charge carriers decides their spin states. As a consequence, a current injected…

Finding efficient ways of manipulating magnetic bits is one of the core goals in spintronic research. Electrically-generated spin-orbit torques (SOTs) are good candidates for this and the search for materials capable of generating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Casper F. Schippers , Henk J. M. Swagten , Marcos H. D. Guimarães

The spin-orbit torques (SOTs) generated from topological insulators (TIs) have gained increasing attention in recent years. These TIs, which are typically formed by epitaxially grown chalcogenides, possess extremely high SOT efficiencies…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-18 Tian-Yue Chen , Cheng-Wei Peng , Tsung-Yu Tsai , Wei-Bang Liao , Chun-Te Wu , Hung-Wei Yen , Chi-Feng Pai

Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter that are insulating in the bulk but metallic on the edge or surface. In the Dirac surface state, it is well-established that the electron spin is locked with the crystal…