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Topological states of matter have attracted a lot of attention due to their many intriguing transport properties. In particular, two-dimensional topological insulators (2D TI) possess gapless counter propagating conducting edge channels,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 G. M. Gusev , Z. D Kvon , E. B. Olshanetsky , N. N. Mikhailov

Topological insulators (TIs) are a new quantum state of matter. Their surfaces and interfaces act as a topological boundary to generate massless Dirac fermions with spin-helical textures. Investigation of fermion dynamics near the Dirac…

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…

Topological insulators have been studied intensively over the last decades. Among these materials, three-dimensional (3D) zirconium pentatelluride (ZrTe$_5$) stands out as one of the most intriguing for both theoretical and experimental…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-04 Chao Chen Ye , Yuliia Kreminska , Jianting Ye , Jagoda Sławińska

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 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…

The effect of quantizing magnetic field on the electron transport is investigated in a two dimensional topological insulator (2D TI) based on a 8 nm (013) HgTe quantum well (QW). The local resistance behavior is indicative of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 E. B. Olshanetsky , Z. D. Kvon , G. M. Gusev , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky

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 recent discovery of topological insulator (TI) offers new opportunities for the development of thermoelectrics, because many TIs (like Bi$_2$Te$_3$) are excellent thermoelectric (TE) materials. In this review, we will first describe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-26 Yong Xu

We report on a detailed study of the terahertz (THz) photoresistivity in a strained HgTe three-dimensional topological insulator (3D TI) for all Fermi level positions: inside the conduction and valence bands, and in the bulk gap. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 M. L. Savchenko , M. Otteneder , I. A. Dmitriev , N. N. Mikhailov , Z. D. Kvon , S. D. Ganichev

Transport in topological matter has shown a variety of novel phenomena over the last decade. Although numerous transport studies have been conducted on three-dimensional topological insulators (3D-TIs), study of ballistic motion and thus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Hubert Maier , Johannes Ziegler , Ralf Fischer , Dmitriy Kozlov , Ze Don Kvon , Nikolay Mikhailov , Sergey A. Dvoretsky , Dieter Weiss

Spin-momentum helical locking is one of the most important properties of the nontrivial topological surface states (TSS) in 3D topological insulators (TI). It underlies the iconic topological protection (suppressing elastic backscattering)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jifa Tian , Isaac Childres , Helin Cao , Shen Tian , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Yong P. Chen

Topological insulators (TIs) are a class of materials characterized by an insulting bulk and high mobility topologically protected surface states, making them promising candidates for future optoelectronic and quantum devices. Although…

Three dimensional (3D) topological insulators are quantum materials with a spin-orbit induced bulk insulating gap that exhibit quantum-Hall-like phenomena in the absence of applied magnetic fields. The proposed applications of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-20 Y. Xia , D. Qian , D. Hsieh , R. Shankar , H. Lin , A. Bansil , A. V. Fedorov , D. Grauer , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

We report thermoelectric (TE) properties of topological surface Dirac states (TSDS) in three-dimensional topological insulators (3D-TIs) purely isolated from the bulk by employing single crystal Bi$_{2-x}$Sb$_x$Te$_{3-y}$Se$_y$ films…

Graphene and topological insulators (TI) possess two-dimensional Dirac fermions with distinct physical properties. Integrating these two Dirac materials in a single device creates interesting opportunities for exploring new physics of…

Three-dimensional strong topological insulators (TIs) guarantee the existence of a 2-D conducting surface state which completely covers the surface of the TI. The TI surface state necessarily wraps around the TI's top, bottom, and two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vincent E. Sacksteder , Kristin Bjorg Arnardottir , Stefan Kettemann , Ivan A. Shelykh

Van der Waals heterostructures have been used to tailor atomic layers into various artificial materials through interactions at heterointerfaces. The interplay between the band gap created by the band folding of the interfacial potential…

Three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) represent novel states of quantum matters in which surface states are protected by time-reversal symmetry and an inversion occurs between bulk conduction- and valence-bands. However, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-14 Zhi-Guo Chen , R. Y. Chen , R. D. Zhong , John Schneeloch , C. Zhang , Y. Huang , Fanming Qu , Rui Yu , Q. Li , G. D. Gu , N. L. Wang

Topological insulators are a novel class of quantum matter with a gapped insulating bulk yet gapless spin helical Dirac fermion conducting surface states. Here, we report local and non-local electrical and magneto transport measurements in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Yang Xu , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Yong P. Chen