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NATURE MATERIALS
卷 13, 期 2, 页码 178-183出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT3828
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- US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering [DE-SC0010526]
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship [0645960]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2011CB921901, 2011CB606405]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- MIT MRSEC through the MRSEC Program of the NSF
- DMR-0819762
- NSF [1207469, N00014-13-1-0301]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1207469] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Three-dimensional topological crystalline insulators were recently predicted and observed in the SnTe class of IV-VI semiconductors, which host metallic surface states protected by crystal symmetries. In this work, we study thin films of these materials and expose their potential for device applications. We demonstrate that thin films of SnTe and Pb1-xSnxSe(Te) grown along the (001) direction are topologically non-trivial in a wide range of film thickness and carry conducting spin-filtered edge states that are protected by the (001) mirror symmetry through a topological invariant. Application of an electric field perpendicular to the film will break the mirror symmetry and generate a bandgap in these edge states. This functionality motivates us to propose a topological transistor device in which charge and spin transport are maximally entangled and simultaneously controlled by an electric field. The high on/off operation speed and coupling of spin and charge in such a device may lead to electronic and spintronic applications for topological crystalline insulators.
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