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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3277
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- Welch Foundation [F-1672]
- ARO grants [W911NF-09-1-0527, W911NF-12-1-0308]
- NSF grant [DMR-0955778]
- DARPA MESO program [N66001-11-1-4107]
- DARPA Grant [N66001-12-1-4034]
- Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0002623]
- NERSC under DOE [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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Bi2Se3 initially emerged as a particularly promising host of topological physics. However, in actual materials, several issues have been uncovered including strong surface band bending and potential fluctuations. To investigate these concerns, we study nominally stoichiometric Bi2Se3 using scanning tunnelling microscopy. Here we identify two distinct distributions of Bi-Se antisites that act as nanometer-scale sensors for the surface band-bending field. To confirm this, we examine bulk Cu-doped Bi2Se3 and demonstrate a significantly reduced surface band-bending field. In addition, we find that in the case of unintentionally doped Bi2Se3, lateral fluctuations of the Dirac point can be directly correlated with specific near-surface point defects, namely Se vacancies.
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