Opportunities in topological insulator devices

O Breunig, Y Ando - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Topological insulators (TIs) hold promise as a platform for unique quantum phenomena.
However, realizing these phenomena experimentally requires sophisticated devices. In this …

Realization of a vertical topological p–n junction in epitaxial Sb2Te3/Bi2Te3 heterostructures

M Eschbach, E Młyńczak, J Kellner… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators are a new state of quantum matter,
which exhibits both a bulk band structure with an insulating energy gap as well as metallic …

Quantum transport of two-species Dirac fermions in dual-gated three-dimensional topological insulators

Y Xu, I Miotkowski, YP Chen - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

Ultra-high modulation depth exceeding 2,400% in optically controlled topological surface plasmons

S Sim, H Jang, N Koirala, M Brahlek, J Moon… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Modulating light via coherent charge oscillations in solids is the subject of intense research
topics in opto-plasmonics. Although a variety of methods are proposed to increase such …

Gate-tunable anomalous Hall effect in stacked van der Waals ferromagnetic insulator–topological insulator heterostructures

AE Llacsahuanga Allcca, XC Pan, I Miotkowski… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The search of novel topological states, such as the quantum anomalous Hall insulator and
chiral Majorana fermions, has motivated different schemes to introduce magnetism into …

Exploration of the role of disorder and the behaviour of the surface state in the three-dimensional topological insulator—Bi2Se3

A Jash, S Ghosh, A Bharathi, SS Banerjee - Bulletin of Materials Science, 2022 - Springer
Here we present an overview of some of our recent experimental investigation on the high
conducting topologically protected surface state properties of a 3D topological insulator (TI) …

Topological-insulator spin transistor

LT Dang, O Breunig, Z Wang, HF Legg, Y Ando - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
When a charge current is injected into the surface state of a topological insulator (TI), the
resulting shift of the spin-momentum-locked Fermi surface leads to the appearance of a net …

In-plane topological pn junction in the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2−xSbxTe3−ySey

NH Tu, Y Tanabe, Y Satake, KK Huynh… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A topological pn junction (TPNJ) is an important concept to control spin and charge transport
on a surface of three-dimensional topological insulators (3D-TIs). Here we report successful …

Topological insulator-based van der Waals heterostructures for effective control of massless and massive Dirac fermions

SK Chong, KB Han, A Nagaoka, R Tsuchikawa… - Nano Letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Three dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TIs) are an important class of materials with
applications in electronics, spintronics and quantum computing. With the recent …

Tunable coupling between surface states of a three-dimensional topological insulator in the quantum Hall regime

SK Chong, KB Han, TD Sparks, VV Deshpande - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
The paired top and bottom Dirac surface states, each associated with a half-integer quantum
Hall (QH) effect, and a resultant integer QH conductance (ν e 2/h), are hallmarks of a three …