scholarly journals Fragility of the Dirac Cone Splitting in Topological Crystalline Insulator Heterostructures

ACS Nano ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 617-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig M. Polley ◽  
Ryszard Buczko ◽  
Alexander Forsman ◽  
Piotr Dziawa ◽  
Andrzej Szczerbakow ◽  
...  
2013 ◽  
Vol 88 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Tanaka ◽  
T. Shoman ◽  
K. Nakayama ◽  
S. Souma ◽  
T. Sato ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mu Wen Chuan ◽  
Kien Liong Wong ◽  
Afiq Hamzah ◽  
Shahrizal Rusli ◽  
Nurul Ezaila Alias ◽  
...  

Catalysed by the success of mechanical exfoliated free-standing graphene, two dimensional (2D) semiconductor materials are successively an active area of research. Silicene is a monolayer of silicon (Si) atoms with a low-buckled honeycomb lattice possessing a Dirac cone and massless fermions in the band structure. Another advantage of silicene is its compatibility with the Silicon wafer fabrication technology. To effectively apply this 2D material in the semiconductor industry, it is important to carry out theoretical studies before proceeding to the next step. In this paper, an overview of silicene and silicene nanoribbons (SiNRs) is described. After that, the theoretical studies to engineer the bandgap of silicene are reviewed. Recent theoretical advancement on the applications of silicene for various field-effect transistor (FET) structures is also discussed. Theoretical studies of silicene have shown promising results for their application as FETs and the efforts to study the performance of bandgap-engineered silicene FET should continue to improve the device performance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. X. M. Riberolles ◽  
T. V. Trevisan ◽  
B. Kuthanazhi ◽  
T. W. Heitmann ◽  
F. Ye ◽  
...  

AbstractKnowledge of magnetic symmetry is vital for exploiting nontrivial surface states of magnetic topological materials. EuIn2As2 is an excellent example, as it is predicted to have collinear antiferromagnetic order where the magnetic moment direction determines either a topological-crystalline-insulator phase supporting axion electrodynamics or a higher-order-topological-insulator phase with chiral hinge states. Here, we use neutron diffraction, symmetry analysis, and density functional theory results to demonstrate that EuIn2As2 actually exhibits low-symmetry helical antiferromagnetic order which makes it a stoichiometric magnetic topological-crystalline axion insulator protected by the combination of a 180∘ rotation and time-reversal symmetries: $${C}_{2}\times {\mathcal{T}}={2}^{\prime}$$ C 2 × T = 2 ′ . Surfaces protected by $${2}^{\prime}$$ 2 ′ are expected to have an exotic gapless Dirac cone which is unpinned to specific crystal momenta. All other surfaces have gapped Dirac cones and exhibit half-integer quantum anomalous Hall conductivity. We predict that the direction of a modest applied magnetic field of μ0H ≈ 1 to 2 T can tune between gapless and gapped surface states.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 4316-4321
Author(s):  
L.-B. Meng ◽  
S. Ni ◽  
Z. M. Zhang ◽  
S. K. He ◽  
W. M. Zhou

Density functional theory calculation predicts a novel ordered boron phosphorus codoped graphene realizing a widely tunable Dirac-cone gap.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Turgut Yilmaz ◽  
Xiao Tong ◽  
Zhongwei Dai ◽  
Jerzy T. Sadowski ◽  
Eike F. Schwier ◽  
...  

AbstractFlat band electronic states are proposed to be a fundamental tool to achieve various quantum states of matter at higher temperatures due to the enhanced electronic correlations. However, materials with such peculiar electronic states are rare and often rely on subtle properties of the band structures. Here, by using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we show the emergent flat band in a VSe2 / Bi2Se3 heterostructure. Our photoemission study demonstrates that the flat band covers the entire Brillouin zone and exhibits 2D nature with a complex circular dichroism. In addition, the Dirac cone of Bi2Se3 is not reshaped by the flat band even though they overlap in proximity of the Dirac point. These features make this flat band distinguishable from the ones previously found. Thereby, the observation of a flat band in the VSe2 / Bi2Se3 heterostructure opens a promising pathway to realize strongly correlated quantum effects in topological materials.


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