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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 94, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.094415
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- Science Foundation Ireland [11/SIRG/I2130, 10/IN1/I3002]
- Joint MMM-Intermag Steering Committee
- NSF [DMR-1207469, DMR-0819762]
- ONR [N00014-13-1-0301]
- STC Center for Integrated Quantum Materials under NSF [DMR-1231319]
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [11/SIRG/I2130] Funding Source: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
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Point contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy is employed to extract the effective Fermi-level spin polarization of three distinct compositions from the (Bi1-xSbx)(2)Te-3 topological insulator family. The end members, Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3, exhibit high polarization of 70(4)% and 57(3)%, respectively. High-field (mu H-0 = 14 T) point contact spectroscopy shows carrier depletion close to the Fermi level for these two compositions with small activation gaps of 0.40(4) and 0.28(2) meV, respectively. The almost fully suppressed bulk conductivity in the (Bi0.18Sb0.82)(2)Te-3 results in an even higher spin polarization of 83(9)%. Further, it is demonstrated that magnetic doping with Cr and V tends to reduce the spin-polarization values with respect to the ones of the pure compositions. Bi1.97Cr0.03Te3, Sb1.975Cr0.025Te3, Bi1.975V0.025Te3, and Sb1.97V0.03Te3 exhibit spin polarization of 52%, 52%, 58%, and 50%, respectively. In view of the rather high effective polarization, nonmagnetic topological insulators close to (Bi0.18Sb0.82)(2)Te-3 may provide a path towards the characterization of pair-breaking mechanisms in spin-triplet superconductors.
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