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Terahertz photoresistivity of a high-mobility 3D topological insulator based on a strained HgTe film. / Savchenko, M. L.; Otteneder, M.; Dmitriev, I. A. et al.
In: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 117, No. 20, 201103, 16.11.2020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Terahertz photoresistivity of a high-mobility 3D topological insulator based on a strained HgTe film
AU - Savchenko, M. L.
AU - Otteneder, M.
AU - Dmitriev, I. A.
AU - Mikhailov, N. N.
AU - Kvon, Z. D.
AU - Ganichev, S. D.
N1 - Funding Information: We are grateful to Dima Kozlov for discussions. The Novosibirsk team acknowledges the financial support from the Russian Science Foundation (Grant No. 16-12-10041-P). The Regensburg team gratefully acknowledges the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)-Project-ID 314695032-SFB 1277 and the Volkswagen Stiftung Program (No. 97738). S.D.G. also thanks the IRAP of the Foundation for Polish Science (Grant No. MAB/2018/9, CENTERA) for the support. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Author(s). Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/11/16
Y1 - 2020/11/16
N2 - We report on a detailed study of terahertz (THz) photoresistivity in a strained HgTe three-dimensional topological insulator (3D TI) for all Fermi level positions: Inside the conduction and valence bands and in the bulk gap. In the presence of a magnetic field, we detect a resonance corresponding to the cyclotron resonance (CR) in the top surface Dirac fermions (DFs) and examine the nontrivial dependence of the surface state cyclotron mass on the Fermi level position. We also detect additional resonant features at moderate electron densities and demonstrate that they are caused by the mixing of surface DFs and bulk electrons. At high electron densities, we observe THz radiation-induced 1/B-periodic low-field magneto-oscillations coupled to harmonics of the CR and demonstrate that they have a common origin with microwave-induced resistance oscillations previously observed in high mobility GaAs-based heterostructures. This observation attests the superior quality of a 2D electron system formed by helical surface states in strained HgTe films.
AB - We report on a detailed study of terahertz (THz) photoresistivity in a strained HgTe three-dimensional topological insulator (3D TI) for all Fermi level positions: Inside the conduction and valence bands and in the bulk gap. In the presence of a magnetic field, we detect a resonance corresponding to the cyclotron resonance (CR) in the top surface Dirac fermions (DFs) and examine the nontrivial dependence of the surface state cyclotron mass on the Fermi level position. We also detect additional resonant features at moderate electron densities and demonstrate that they are caused by the mixing of surface DFs and bulk electrons. At high electron densities, we observe THz radiation-induced 1/B-periodic low-field magneto-oscillations coupled to harmonics of the CR and demonstrate that they have a common origin with microwave-induced resistance oscillations previously observed in high mobility GaAs-based heterostructures. This observation attests the superior quality of a 2D electron system formed by helical surface states in strained HgTe films.
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U2 - 10.1063/5.0025745
DO - 10.1063/5.0025745
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85096691354
VL - 117
JO - Applied Physics Letters
JF - Applied Physics Letters
SN - 0003-6951
IS - 20
M1 - 201103
ER -
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