Cr doping as a route to topological insulator devices

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To observe the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect, unlock the exciting potential of magneto-electric effects, robust ferromagnetic doping of topological insulators has to be achieved. Ferromagnetic doping, which leads to a gap opening in the topological surface state band structure while also having a low background carrier density, is required. A promising materials system which allows for both requirements to be met at the same time is Cr-doped (Bi,Sb)2Te3. We propose to study MBE grown thin films of varying stoichiometry and substrate type to gain insight into carrier concentration and strain dependencies of the ferromagnetic ordering. Our goal is to understand the underlying mechanisms that provide the fine balance of ferromagnetic doping and low carrier density in great detail. Our goal is to study the interfaces and thin films of precisely engineered thin films using POLREF.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.54808931
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/54808931
Provenance
Creator Mr Alexander Baker; Professor Thorsten Hesjedal; Dr Timothy Charlton; Mr Piet Schoenherr; Professor Gerrit van der Laan; Dr Christy Kinane; Professor Sean Langridge; Mr Liam Collins-McIntyre; Dr Nina-Juliane Steinke
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
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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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-08-16T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-08-21T23:00:00Z