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分子束外延生长(Sb2Te3)x(MnSb2Te4)y磁性拓扑绝缘体的组分控制与优化

Compositional Control and Optimization of Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth of (Sb2Te3)x(MnSb2Te4)y Magnetic Topological Insulators

Ido Levy, Candice Forrester, Haiming Deng, Manuel Goldan, Martha R. McCartney, David J. Smith, Christophe Testelin, Lia Krusin-Elbaum, Maria C. Tamargo

摘要:

磁性拓扑绝缘体如MnBi2Te4和MnSb2Te4是量子反常霍尔效应和本征轴子绝缘体态等新物理现象的有希望的宿主,它们在拓扑自旋电子学和无差错量子计算的实现中具有潜在的重要意义。在块体中,材料是反铁磁的,但与非磁性层或晶格中过量的Mn适当堆叠可以诱导净铁磁对准。在这项工作中,我们报告的生长(Sb2Te3)x(MnSb2Te4)y层与不同的Mn含量的分子束外延。在生长期间提供的Mn助熔剂分数控制通过自组装过程在所得层中形成的MnSb2Te4的百分比。获得了具有在Sb_2Te_3(y=0)和MnSb_2Te_4(x=0)之间变化的组成的高度结晶的层。结果表明,Mn作为结构组分掺入形成MnSb2Te4,并作为杂质元素掺入Sb2Te3和MnSb2Te4中。两个修改的生长条件进行了实施,以提高纳入锰作为一种结构元素,形成MnSb2Te4。在生长开始时对层的薄部分进行退火(预退火步骤),以及增加生长温度,这两者都导致在生长期间对于类似的Mn通量分数的更大百分比的MnSb2Te4。具有至少几个百分比的MnSb2Te4层的样品表现出铁磁行为,这可能是由于系统中过量的Mn,其作为MnSb反位缺陷稳定在Sb位点上。

英文摘要:

Magnetic topological insulators such as MnBi2Te4 and MnSb2Te4 are promising hosts of novel physical phenomena such as quantum anomalous Hall effect and intrinsic axion insulator state, both potentially important for the implementation in topological spintronics and error-free quantum computing. In the bulk, the materials are antiferromagnetic but appropriate stacking with non-magnetic layers or excess Mn in the crystal lattice can induce a net ferromagnetic alignment. In this work we report the growth of (Sb2Te3)x(MnSb2Te4)y layers with varying Mn content by molecular beam epitaxy. The Mn flux fraction provided during growth controls the percent of MnSb2Te4 that is formed in the resulting layers by a self-assembly process. Highly crystalline layers with compositions varying between Sb2Te3 (y=0) and MnSb2Te4 (x=0) were obtained. The results show that Mn incorporates as a structural component to form MnSb2Te4, and as an impurity element both in Sb2Te3 and in MnSb2Te4. Two modifications of the growth conditions were implemented to enhance the incorporation of Mn as a structural element to form MnSb2Te4. Annealing of a thin portion of the layer at the beginning of growth (pre-anneal step), and increasing the growth temperature, both result in a larger percent of MnSb2Te4 for similar Mn flux fractions during growth. Samples having at least a few percent of MnSb2Te4 layers exhibit ferromagnetic behavior likely due to the excess Mn in the system which stabilizes on Sb sites as MnSb antisite defects.

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