Electrical injection and detection of spin-polarized currents in topological insulator Bi2Te2Se

J Tian, I Miotkowski, S Hong, YP Chen - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Topological insulators (TIs) are an unusual phase of quantum matter with nontrivial spin-
momentum-locked topological surface states (TSS). The electrical detection of spin …

Observation of current-induced, long-lived persistent spin polarization in a topological insulator: A rechargeable spin battery

J Tian, S Hong, I Miotkowski, S Datta, YP Chen - Science Advances, 2017 - science.org
Topological insulators (TIs), with their helically spin-momentum–locked topological surface
states (TSSs), are considered promising for spintronics applications. Several recent …

Large enhancement of thermal conductivity and Lorenz number in topological insulator thin films

Z Luo, J Tian, S Huang, M Srinivasan, J Maassen… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Topological insulators (TI) have attracted extensive research effort due to their insulating
bulk states but conducting surface states. However, investigation and understanding of …

Detection of the spin-chemical potential in topological insulators using spin-polarized four-probe STM

SM Hus, XG Zhang, GD Nguyen, W Ko, AP Baddorf… - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We demonstrate a new method for the detection of the spin-chemical potential in topological
insulators using spin-polarized four-probe scanning tunneling microscopy on in situ cleaved …

Differentiation of surface and bulk conductivities in topological insulators via four-probe spectroscopy

C Durand, XG Zhang, SM Hus, C Ma, MA McGuire… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We show a new method to differentiate conductivities from the surface states and the
coexisting bulk states in topological insulators using a four-probe transport spectroscopy in a …

Trigger of the ubiquitous surface band bending in 3D topological insulators

E Frantzeskakis, SV Ramankutty, N De Jong… - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
The main scientific activity in the field of topological insulators (TIs) consists of determining
their electronic structure by means of magnetotransport and electron spectroscopy with a …

Modeling of magneto-conductivity of bismuth selenide: a topological insulator

Y Kumar, R Sultana, P Sharma, VPS Awana - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
We report the magneto-conductivity analysis of Bi 2 Se 3 single crystal at different
temperatures in a magnetic field range of±14 T. The single crystals are grown by the self-flux …

Near-Field Imaging of Surface Plasmons from the Bulk and Surface State of Topological Insulator Bi2Te2Se

PK Venuthurumilli, X Wen, V Iyer, YP Chen, X Xu - ACS Photonics, 2019 - ACS Publications
Surface plasmons are collective oscillations of electrons that can enable confinement of
electromagnetic energy to subwavelength scales. Recent progress in plasmonics has …

Experimental evidence and control of the bulk-mediated intersurface coupling in topological insulator nanoribbons

Z Li, I Garate, J Pan, X Wan, T Chen, W Ning, X Zhang… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We present evidence for the existence and control of bulk-surface coupling in Bi 2 Te 2 Se
nanoribbons. Our magnetoresistance measurements reveal that the number of coherent …

Topological delocalization and tuning of surface channel separation in Bi2Se2Te Topological Insulator Thin films

RK Gopal, S Singh, A Mandal, J Sarkar, C Mitra - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The surface states of a 3D topological insulator (TI) exhibit topological protection against
backscattering. However, the contribution of bulk electrons to the transport data is an …