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Bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) and its alloys are the best bulk thermoelectric materials known today. The stacked quasi-two-dimensional (2D) layers of Bi2Te3 were also identified as topological insulators. In this paper we describe a method for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-19 Desalegne Teweldebrhan , Vivek Goyal , Alexander A. Balandin

Topological insulators (TI) are promising materials for future spintronics applications and their epitaxial integration would allow the realization of new hybrid interfaces. As the first materials studied, Bismuth Antimony alloys (Bi1-xSbx)…

We apply a topological material design concept for selecting a bulk topology of 3D crystals by different van-der-Waals stacking of 2D topological insulator layers, and find a bismuth halide Bi4Br2I2 to be an ideal weak topological insulator…

The rapid progress in 2D material research has triggered the growth of various quantum nanostructures-nanosheets, nanowires, nanoribbons, nanocrystals and the exotic nature originating through 2D heterostructures has extended the synthesis…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-11 Alka Sharma , T D Senguttuvan , V N Ojha , Sudhir Husale

Epitaxial films of bismuth telluride topological insulators have received increasing attention due to potential applications in spintronic and quantum computation. One of the most important properties of epitaxial films is the presence of…

Recent years have seen multiple high-throughput studies reveal an immense number of topological materials through use of symmetry indicators. Despite this success, three-dimensional topological insulators (TI) admitting a band-gap larger…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-13 Alexander C. Tyner , Pallab Goswami

Topological insulator (TI) materials such as Bi2Te3 and Bi2Se3 have attracted strong recent interests. Large scale, high quality TI thin films are important for developing TI-based device applications. In this work, structural and…

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulator (TI) have been recognized as a new class of quantum state of matter. They are distinguished from normal 2D insulators with their nontrivial band-structure topology identified by the $Z_2$ number as…

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs), a new state of quantum matter, are promising for achieving the low-power-consuming electronic devices owning to the remarkable robustness of their conducting edge states against…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-15 Yandong Ma , Liangzhi Kou , Ying Dai , Thomas Heine

The discovery of strong topological insulators led to enormous activity in condensed matter physics and the discovery of new types of topological materials. Bisumth based chalcogenides are exemplary strong three dimensional topological…

The major breakthroughs in the understanding of topological materials over the past decade were all triggered by the discovery of the Z$_2$ topological insulator (TI). In three dimensions (3D), the TI is classified as either "strong" or…

Intrinsic magnetic topological insulator (TI) is a stoichiometric magnetic compound possessing both inherent magnetic order and topological electronic states. Such a material can provide a shortcut to various novel topological quantum…

Topological insulators (TIs) are a new quantum state of matter which have gapless surface states inside the bulk energy gap. Starting with the discovery of two dimensional TIs, the HgTe-based quantum wells, many new topological materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-12-03 Lukas Müchler , Frederick Casper , Binghai Yan , Stanislav Chadov , Claudia Felser

Introducing uniform magnetic order in two-dimensional topological insulators (2D TIs) by constructing heterostructures of TI and magnet is a promising way to realize the high-temperature Quantum Anomalous Hall effect. However, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Qun Niu , Jie Yao , Quanchao Song , Humaira Akber , Qin Zhou , Xiaofang Zhai , Aidi Zhao

Surface states of topological insulators (TIs) have been playing the central role in the majority of outstanding investigations in low-dimensional electron systems for more than 10 years. TIs based on high-quality strained HgTe films…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 M. L. Savchenko , D. A. Kozlov , N. N. Vasilev , Z. D. Kvon , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , A. V. Kolesnikov

Highly crystalline and easily feasible topological insulator-superconductor (TI-SC) heterostructures are crucial for the development of practical topological qubit devices. The optimal superconducting layer for TI-SC heterostructures should…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Renjie Xie , Min Ge , Shaozhu Xiao , Jiahui Zhang , Jiachang Bi , Xiaoyu Yuan , Hee Taek Yi , Baomin Wang , Seongshik Oh , Yanwei Cao , Xiong Yao

Topological insulator (TI) represents an unconventional quantum phase of matter with insulating bulk bandgap and metallic surface states. Recent theoretical calculations and photoemission spectroscopy measurements show that Group V-VI…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-09 Desheng Kong , Wenhui Dang , Judy J. Cha , Hui Li , Stefan Meister , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , Yi Cui

Topological insulators (TIs) are characterized by an insulating bulk and symmetry protected bound state on their boundaries. A "strong" topological insulator is characterized by robust conducting states on \emph{all} boundaries protected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 Inbar Hotzen Grinberg , Mao Lin , Wladimir A. Benalcazar , Taylor L. Hughes , Gaurav Bahl

Topological insulators (TIs) are promising for achieving dissipationless transport devices due to the robust gapless states inside the insulating bulk gap. However, currently realized 2D TIs, quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators, suffer from…

Topological insulators (TIs) and topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) are materials with unconventional electronic properties, making their discovery highly valuable for practical applications. However, such materials, particularly…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-21 Haosheng Xu , Dongheng Qian , Zhixuan Liu , Yadong Jiang , Jing Wang