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MA: Fachverband Magnetismus

MA 36: Topological insulators and Weyl semimetals (joint session MA/TT)

MA 36.12: Talk

Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 18:00–18:15, EB 407

Core-Shell Nanowires of 3D Topological Insulators — •Kevin Geishendorf, Tommi Tynell, Kornelius Nielsch, and Andy Thomas — Institute for Metallic Materials, IFW Dresden

Topological insulators (TI) are promising candidates for next generation electronic/spintronic devices. The gapless surface states (SS) in TI exhibit a very high mobility and strongly suppressed backscattering due to spin-momentum locking. However, to exploit those advantageous one has to decrease the finit bulk conductance present in most TI systems.

One approach to achieve this reduction is to utilize band bending which occurs at the interface between two materials with different Fermi levels. The band bending leads to a charge depletion/ or accumulation near the interface. It therefore provides a tool to shift the fermi energy closer to the Dirac point.

In this work we have grown core-shell nanowires using Vapor-Liquid-Solid (VLS) growth and Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD). As core material Bi2Se3 and as shell materials Al2O3 and Sb2Te3 were employed. The uniformity, crystallinity and composition of those core-shell nanowire was investigated using TEM, nanodiffraction and EDX. Furthermore, devices for transport experiments were built using optical lithography and lift-off techniques. With those devices cryogenic magneto transport measurements have been performed revealing quantum interference effects such as weak-antilocalization and universal conductance fluctuations.

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