The property, preparation and application of topological insulators: a review

W Tian, W Yu, J Shi, Y Wang - Materials, 2017 - mdpi.com
Topological insulator (TI), a promising quantum and semiconductor material, has gapless
surface state and narrow bulk band gap. Firstly, the properties, classifications and …

Topological insulators photodetectors: Preparation, advances and application challenges

M Yang, H Zhou, J Wang - Materials Today Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
In photoelectric device era, topological insulators (TIs) are considered very promising
candidates due to their superior features, including remarkable properties, full components …

Revealing a distortive polar order buried in the Fermi sea

J Shi, W You, X Li, FY Gao, X Peng, S Zhang, J Li… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Polar metals are challenging to identify spectroscopically because the fingerprints of electric
polarization are often obscured by the presence of screening charges. Here, we unravel …

Axially lattice-matched wurtzite/rock-salt GaAs/Pb1−xSnxTe nanowires

S Dad, P Dziawa, W Zajkowska-Pietrzak, S Kret… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
We investigate the full and half-shells of Pb1− x Sn x Te topological crystalline insulator
deposited by molecular beam epitaxy on the sidewalls of wurtzite GaAs nanowires (NWs) …

Hybridization-induced gapped and gapless states on the surface of magnetic topological insulators

XM Ma, Z Chen, EF Schwier, Y Zhang, YJ Hao… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
The layered Mn Bi 2 n Te 3 n+ 1 family represents the first intrinsic antiferromagnetic (AFM)
topological insulator (protected by a combination symmetry S) ever discovered, providing an …

Observation of Coexisting Weak Localization and Superconducting Fluctuations in Strained Sn1–xInxTe Thin Films

J Wang, W Powers, Z Zhang, M Smith, BJ McIntosh… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Topological superconductors have attracted tremendous excitement as they are predicted to
host Majorana zero modes that can be utilized for topological quantum computing …

Anisotropic Rashba splitting dominated by out-of-plane spin polarization in two-dimensional Janus (; ) with surface imperfection

A Lukmantoro, MAU Absor - Physical Review Materials, 2023 - APS
The anisotropic Rashba effect allows for the manipulation of electron spins in a more precise
and tunable manner since the magnitude of the Rashba splitting and orientation of the spin …

A novel ferroelectric Rashba semiconductor

G Krizman, T Zakusylo, L Sajeev, M Hajlaoui… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fast, reversible, and low‐power manipulation of the spin texture is crucial for next
generation spintronic devices like non‐volatile bipolar memories, switchable spin current …

Density Functional Theory Study of the Spin–Orbit Insulating Phase in SnTe Cubic Nanowires: Implications for Topological Electronics

G Hussain, K Warda, G Cuono… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We investigate the electronic, structural, and topological properties of the SnTe and PbTe
cubic nanowires using ab initio calculations. Using standard and linear-scale density …

Valley-polarized quantum Hall phase in a strain-controlled Dirac system

G Krizman, J Bermejo-Ortiz, T Zakusylo, M Hajlaoui… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
In multivalley systems, the valley pseudospin offers rich physics going from encoding of
information by its polarization (valleytronics), to exploring novel phases of matter when its …