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In situ tuning of symmetry-breaking-induced nonreciprocity in the giant-Rashba semiconductor BiTeBr. / Kocsis, Mátyás; Zheliuk, Oleksandr; Makk, Péter et al.
In: Physical Review Research, Vol. 3, No. 3, 033253, 09.2021.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - In situ tuning of symmetry-breaking-induced nonreciprocity in the giant-Rashba semiconductor BiTeBr
AU - Kocsis, Mátyás
AU - Zheliuk, Oleksandr
AU - Makk, Péter
AU - Tóvári, Endre
AU - Kun, Péter
AU - Tereshchenko, Oleg Evgenevich
AU - Kokh, Konstantin Aleksandrovich
AU - Taniguchi, Takashi
AU - Watanabe, Kenji
AU - Ye, Jianting
AU - Csonka, Szabolcs
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 authors.
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - Nonreciprocal transport, where the left-to-right-flowing current differs from the right-to-left-flowing one, is an unexpected phenomenon in bulk crystals. BiTeBr is a noncentrosymmetric material, with a giant Rashba spin-orbit coupling which presents this unusual effect when placed in an in-plane magnetic field. It has been shown that this effect depends strongly on the carrier density; however, in situ tuning has not yet been demonstrated. We developed a method where thin BiTeBr flakes are gate tuned via ionic-liquid gating through a thin protective hexagonal boron nitride layer. Tuning the carrier density allows a more than 400% variation of the nonreciprocal response in our sample. Our study demonstrates how a few-atomic-layer-thick van der Waals protection layer allows ionic gating of chemically sensitive, exotic nanocrystals.
AB - Nonreciprocal transport, where the left-to-right-flowing current differs from the right-to-left-flowing one, is an unexpected phenomenon in bulk crystals. BiTeBr is a noncentrosymmetric material, with a giant Rashba spin-orbit coupling which presents this unusual effect when placed in an in-plane magnetic field. It has been shown that this effect depends strongly on the carrier density; however, in situ tuning has not yet been demonstrated. We developed a method where thin BiTeBr flakes are gate tuned via ionic-liquid gating through a thin protective hexagonal boron nitride layer. Tuning the carrier density allows a more than 400% variation of the nonreciprocal response in our sample. Our study demonstrates how a few-atomic-layer-thick van der Waals protection layer allows ionic gating of chemically sensitive, exotic nanocrystals.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033253
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033253
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85115892221
VL - 3
JO - Physical Review Research
JF - Physical Review Research
SN - 2643-1564
IS - 3
M1 - 033253
ER -
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