Study of Local Magnetism of Magnetic Dopants in Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 by MUSR

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Topological insulators (TIs), which are insulating in bulk and conducting on surface due to a protected time-reversal symmetry (TRS), have become of great interest recently. The TRS can be broken by elemental magnetic doping. 3D TI Bi2Se3 is one such example. One attractive direction could be the use of nanostructures, wherein the surface-to-volume ratio is high. Recently, we synthesized Co- and Dy-doped Bi2Se3 hexagonal nanoplates (NP's). Magnetization measurements indicated the occurrence of a ferromagnetic phase at very low temperatures (T), while the NP's are diamagnetic or paramagnetic otherwise. Weak Co and strong Dy moments were found to accompany this behaviour. Thus, there is an unsystematic magnetic behaviour of the NP’s. We propose measurements of local magnetic properties using MUSR at varying T and magnetic field to gain further insight into the problem.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87840393
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87840393
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Creator Dr Aidy Hillier; Dr Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava; Dr Mark Telling; Miss Anu Gupta
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-12-15T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-12-18T09:30:00Z