Topological Phonons and Thermoelectric Conversion in Crystalline Materials

ZK Ding, YJ Zeng, W Liu, LM Tang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Topological phononics, a fascinating frontier in condensed matter physics, holds great
promise for advancing energy‐related applications. Topologically nontrivial phonons …

Development of topological insulator and topological crystalline insulator nanostructures

CW Liu, Z Wang, RLJ Qiu, XPA Gao - Nanotechnology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Topological insulators (TIs), a class of quantum materials with time reversal symmetry
protected gapless Dirac-surface states, have attracted intensive research interests due to …

Energy gap of topological surface states in proximity to a magnetic insulator

J Wang, T Wang, M Ozerov, Z Zhang… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Topological surface-states can acquire an energy gap when time-reversal symmetry is
broken by interfacing with a magnetic insulator. This gap has yet to be measured. Such …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental formation of monolayer group-IV monochalcogenides

K Chang, SSP Parkin - Journal of Applied Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Monolayer group-IV monochalcogenides (MX, M= Ge⁠, Sn, Pb; X= S⁠, Se, Te) are a family
of novel two-dimensional (2D) materials that have atomic structures closely related to that of …

Structure inversion asymmetry and Rashba effect in quantum confined topological crystalline insulator heterostructures

R Rechciński, M Galicka, M Simma… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Structure inversion asymmetry is an inherent feature of quantum confined
heterostructures with non‐equivalent interfaces. It leads to a spin splitting of the electron …

Realization of a tunable surface Dirac gap in Sb-doped

XM Ma, Y Zhao, K Zhang, S Kumar, R Lu, J Li, Q Yao… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Signatures of both the quantum anomalous Hall effect and axion electrodynamics have
been recently observed to exist in thin films of MnBi 2 Te 4, a stoichiometric …

Surface chemical treatment effect on (1 1 1) PbSnTe< In> Topological crystalline insulator films

AS Tarasov, DV Ishchenko, IO Akhundov… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
In present work, the effect of Pb 1-x Sn x Te< In>(1 1 1) surface chemical treatment on
electrophysical and optical properties was studied. It was shown that treatment of Pb 1-x Sn …

Atomic and electronic structure of a multidomain GeTe crystal

AS Frolov, J Sanchez-Barriga, C Callaert… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Renewed interest in the ferroelectric semiconductor germanium telluride was recently
triggered by the direct observation of a giant Rashba effect and a 30-year-old dream about a …

Role of topological surface states and mirror symmetry in topological crystalline insulator SnTe as an efficient electrocatalyst

Q Qu, B Liu, H Liu, J Liang, J Wang, D Pan, IK Sou - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The surface orientation dependence on the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance
of topological crystalline insulator (TCI) SnTe thin films is studied. Their intrinsic activities are …

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study of topological quantum materials

C Zhang, Y Li, D Pei, Z Liu… - Annual Review of Materials …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The recently discovered topological quantum materials (TQMs) have electronic structures
that can be characterized by certain topological invariants. In these novel materials, the …