Title
Gate Tunable Relativistic Mass and Berry's phase in Topological Insulator Nanoribbon Field Effect Devices
Date Issued
13 February 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pettes M.T.
Rokhinson L.P.
Shi L.
Chen Y.P.
Purdue University
Publisher(s)
Nature Publishing Group
Abstract
Transport due to spin-helical massless Dirac fermion surface state is of paramount importance to realize various new physical phenomena in topological insulators, ranging from quantum anomalous Hall effect to Majorana fermions. However, one of the most important hallmarks of topological surface states, the Dirac linear band dispersion, has been difficult to reveal directly in transport measurements. Here we report experiments on Bi2Te3 nanoribbon ambipolar field effect devices on highκ SrTiO3 substrates, where we achieve a gate-tuned bulk metal-insulator transition and the topological transport regime with substantial surface state conduction. In this regime, we report two unambiguous transport evidences for gate-tunable Dirac fermions through π Berry's phase in Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations and effective mass proportional to the Fermi momentum, indicating linear energy-momentum dispersion. We also measure a gate-tunable weak anti-localization (WAL) with 2 coherent conduction channels (indicating 2 decoupled surfaces) near the charge neutrality point, and a transition to weak localization (indicating a collapse of the Berry's phase) when the Fermi energy approaches the bulk conduction band. The gate-tunable Dirac fermion topological surface states pave the way towards a variety of topological electronic devices.
Volume
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física y Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84940077550
Source
Scientific Reports
Sponsor(s)
Funding text The TI material synthesis, characterization and magneto-transport studies are supported by DARPA MESO program (Grant N66001-11-1-4107). The FET fabrication and characterizations are supported by Intel Corporation. L. A. J. acknowledges support by the Intel PhD fellowship and the Purdue Center for Topological Materials. L.P.R. acknowledges support by NSF grant DMR-1307247. We also acknowledge helpful input from Jaehyun Kim.
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