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• 作者：William S. WhitneyVictor W. Brar ; Yunbo Ou ; Yinming Shao ; Artur R. Davoyan ; D. N. Basov ; Ke He ; Qi-Kun Xue ; Harry A. Atwater
• 刊名：Nano Letters
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 11, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 页码：255-260
• 全文大小：429K
• ISSN：1530-6992

文摘

We report mid-infrared spectroscopy measurements of ultrathin, electrostatically gated (Bi<sub>1–xsub>Sb<sub>xsub>)<sub>2sub>Te<sub>3sub> topological insulator films in which we observe several percent modulation of transmittance and reflectance as gating shifts the Fermi level. Infrared transmittance measurements of gated films were enabled by use of an epitaxial lift-off method for large-area transfer of topological insulator films from infrared-absorbing SrTiO<sub>3sub> growth substrates to thermal oxidized silicon substrates. We combine these optical experiments with transport measurements and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to identify the observed spectral modulation as a gate-driven transfer of spectral weight between both bulk and 2D topological surface channels and interband and intraband channels. We develop a model for the complex permittivity of gated (Bi<sub>1–xsub>Sb<sub>xsub>)<sub>2sub>Te<sub>3sub> and find a good match to our experimental data. These results open the path for layered topological insulator materials as a new candidate for tunable, ultrathin infrared optics and highlight the possibility of switching topological optoelectronic phenomena between bulk and spin-polarized surface regimes.