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Work function of bulk-insulating topological insulator Bi2-xSbxTe3-ySey
Recent discovery of bulk insulating topological insulator (TI)
Bi2-xSbxTe3-ySey paved a pathway toward practical device application of TIs.
For realizing TI-based devices, it is necessary to contact TIs with a metal.
Since the band-bending at the interface dominates the character of devices,
knowledge of TIs' work function is of essential importance. We have determined
the compositional dependence of work function in Bi2-xSbxTe3-ySey by
high-resolution photoemission spectroscopy. The obtained work-function values
(4.95-5.20 eV) show a systematic variation with the composition, well tracking
the energy shift of the surface chemical potential seen by angle-resolved
photoemission spectroscopy. The present result serves as a useful guide for
developing TI-based electronic devices.Comment: 4pages, 2 figure
High-Resolution Photoemission Study of Fine Electronic Structure in the Vicinity of the Fermi Level of High-T_c Superconductors(Abstracts of Doctoral Dissertations,Annual Report(from April 2001 to March 2002))
Above experimental facts show that electron- and hole-doped HTSCs share common features in the topology of FS and the symmetry of superconducting gap. This indicates that essential framework of the superconductivity is the same between electron- and hole-doped HTSCs
Direct Evidence for the Dirac-Cone Topological Surface States in Ternary Chalcogenide TlBiSe2
We have performed high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
on TlBiSe2, which is a member of the ternary chalcogenides theoretically
proposed as candidates for a new class of three-dimensional topological
insulators. By measuring the energy band dispersions over the entire surface
Brillouin zone, we found a direct evidence for a non-trivial surface metallic
state showing a X-shaped energy dispersion within the bulk band gap. The
present result unambiguously establishes that TlBiSe2 is a strong topological
insulator with a single Dirac cone at the Brillouin-zone center. The observed
bulk band gap of 0.4 eV is the largest among known topological insulators,
making TlBiSe2 the most promising material for studying room-temperature
topological phenomena.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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