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arXiv 1101.3583cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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用于高性能太赫兹到红外应用的拓扑绝缘体

Topological insulators for high performance terahertz to infrared applications

Xiao Zhang, Jing Wang, Shou-Cheng Zhang

摘要:

Bi 2 Se 3族中的拓扑绝缘体在体相中具有能隙,并且具有由单个狄拉克锥组成的无能隙表面态。由于表面态引起的低频光吸收一般由精细结构常数决定。当这些三维拓扑绝缘体的厚度减小时,它们变成具有增强的吸收的准二维绝缘体。二维绝缘体可以是拓扑平凡的或非平凡的依赖于厚度,我们预测的光学吸收是更大的拓扑非平凡的情况下相比,平凡的情况。由于三维拓扑绝缘体表面态本质上是无带隙的,我们提出了它在宽带宽、高性能光探测中的潜在应用,覆盖从太赫兹到红外的宽光谱。当厚度减小到几个五层时,光电探测的性能可以显着增强,具有取决于厚度的宽可调带隙。

英文摘要:

Topological insulators in the Bi2Se3 family have an energy gap in the bulk and a gapless surface state consisting of a single Dirac cone. Low frequency optical absorption due to the surface state is universally determined by the fine structure constant. When the thickness of these three dimensional topological insulators is reduced, they become quasi-two dimensional insulators with enhanced absorbance. The two dimensional insulators can be topologically trivial or non-trivial depending on the thickness, and we predict that the optical absorption is larger for topological non-trivial case compared with the trivial case. Since the three dimensional topological insulator surface state is intrinsically gapless, we propose its potential application in wide bandwidth, high performance photo-detection covering a broad spectrum ranging from terahertz to infrared. The performance of photodetection can be dramatically enhanced when the thickness is reduced to several quintuple layers, with a widely tunable band gap depending on the thickness.

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