Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of topological insulators / vorgelegt von Vladislav Nagorkin. Wuppertal, 2024
Content
- Introduction
- Introduction to the materials
- Topological insulators
- Quantum Hall state and quantum spin Hall state
- Three-dimensional topological insulators: overview
- Three-dimensional topological insulators: experimental discovery
- Bi2Te3: crystal and electronic structure
- STM and STS of Bi2Te3
- Magnetic topological insulators
- MnBiTe-family of compounds
- Experimental technique: STM and STS
- Experimental results
- Bi2Te3
- Topography
- STS
- dI/dU maps in zero-field
- QPI analysis of the zero-field dI/dU maps
- Magnetic field measurements
- Conclusions
- MnBi2Te4
- MnBi4Te7
- Summary
- Additional experimental and simulated QPI data on Bi2Te3
- Symmetrization procedure of the FT-QPI patterns
- Program codes
- Additional STS data on MnBi4Te7
- Bibliography