Colloquium: Topological band theory

A Bansil, H Lin, T Das - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
The first-principles band theory paradigm has been a key player not only in the process of
discovering new classes of topologically interesting materials, but also for identifying salient …

Interband transitions in semi-metals, semiconductors, and topological insulators: a new driving force for plasmonics and nanophotonics

J Toudert, R Serna - Optical Materials Express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Plasmonic and dielectric Mie resonances in subwavelength nanostructures provide an
efficient way to manipulate light below the diffraction limit that has fostered the growth of …

[HTML][HTML] High performance broadband photodetector using fabricated nanowires of bismuth selenide

A Sharma, B Bhattacharyya, AK Srivastava… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Recently, very exciting optoelectronic properties of Topological insulators (TIs) such as
strong light absorption, photocurrent sensitivity to the polarization of light, layer thickness …

[HTML][HTML] Preparation of few-layer bismuth selenide by liquid-phase-exfoliation and its optical absorption properties

L Sun, Z Lin, J Peng, J Weng, Y Huang, Z Luo - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract Bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3), a new topological insulator, has attracted much
attention in recent years owing to its relatively simple band structure and large bulk band …

Two-dimensional cobalt telluride as a piezo-tribogenerator

SD Negedu, R Tromer, CC Gowda, CF Woellner… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have been shown to be efficient in energy harvesting. Here,
we report the use of waste heat to generate electricity via the combined piezoelectric and …

[HTML][HTML] Boosting photoelectrochemical efficiency by near-infrared-active lattice-matched morphological heterojunctions

GQ Liu, Y Yang, Y Li, T Zhuang, XF Li, J Wicks… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Photoelectrochemical catalysis is an attractive way to provide direct hydrogen production
from solar energy. However, solar conversion efficiencies are hindered by the fact that light …

Excellent photothermal conversion of core/shell CdSe/Bi2Se3 quantum dots

GZ Jia, WK Lou, F Cheng, XL Wang, JH Yao, N Dai… - Nano Research, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Water-dispersed CdSe/Bi 2 Se 3 core/shell QDs with a photothermal conversion
coefficient of 27.09% have been synthesized by a cation exchange reaction. The …

Tunable and laser-reconfigurable 2D heterocrystals obtained by epitaxial stacking of crystallographically incommensurate Bi2Se3 and MoS2 atomic layers

A Vargas, F Liu, C Lane, D Rubin, I Bilgin… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Vertical stacking is widely viewed as a promising approach for designing advanced
functionalities using two-dimensional (2D) materials. Combining crystallographically …

[HTML][HTML] Localized surface plasmon enhanced photothermal conversion in Bi2Se3 topological insulator nanoflowers

J Guozhi, W Peng, Z Yanbang, C Kai - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Localized surface plasmons (LSP), the confined collective excitations of electrons in noble
metal and doped semiconductor nanostructures, enhance greatly local electric field near the …

Optical response of a topological-insulator–quantum-dot hybrid interacting with a probe electric field

LA Castro-Enriquez, LF Quezada, A Martín-Ruiz - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We study the interaction between a topological-insulator nanoparticle and a quantum dot
subject to an applied electric field. The electromagnetic response of the topological insulator …