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Unit cell distortion and surface morphology diversification in a SnTe/CdTe(001) topological crystalline insulator heterostructure: influence of defect azimuthal distribution

Published:2022 Issue:8 Volume:10 Page:3139-3152
ISSN:2050-7526
Container-title:Journal of Materials Chemistry C
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Mater. Chem. C

Author:

Sulich Adrian¹^ORCID,Łusakowska Elżbieta¹^ORCID,Wołkanowicz Wojciech¹,Dziawa Piotr¹^ORCID,Sadowski Janusz¹²^ORCID,Taliashvili Badri¹,Wojtowicz Tomasz³^ORCID,Story Tomasz¹³^ORCID,Domagala Jaroslaw Z.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/46, PL 02 668 Warsaw, Poland

2. Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Linnaeus University, 391 82 Kalmar, Sweden

3. International Research Centre MagTop, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/46, PL 02 668 Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

Monoclinic-distorted SnTe(001) topological crystalline insulator layers with a strain large enough to open the energy gap in the metallic Dirac-like spectrum of surface states were grown by molecular beam epitaxy and crystallographically analyzed.

Funder

Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej

Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Materials Chemistry,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/TC/D1TC05733B

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