期刊
PHYSICA E-LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS & NANOSTRUCTURES
卷 136, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2021.115000
关键词
Core-shell nanoparticles; Surface states; Topological insulator
资金
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, Spain [PID2019-106820RB-C21]
The study investigates novel spherical core-shell nanoparticles with band inversion, showing robust midgap bound states and the tunability of energy levels through shell thickness. This discovery opens up possibilities for applications in electronics and optoelectronics.
In this work we investigate novel spherical core-shell nanoparticles with band inversion. The core and the embedding medium are normal semiconductors while the shell material is assumed to be a topological insulator. The envelope functions are found to satisfy a Dirac-like equation that can be solved in a closed form. The core-shell nanoparticle supports midgap bound states located at both interfaces due to band inversion. These states are robust since they are topologically protected. The energy spectrum presents mirror symmetry due to the chiral symmetry of the Dirac-like Hamiltonian. As a major result, we show that the thickness of the shell acts as an additional parameter for the fine tuning of the energy levels, which paves the way for electronics and optoelectronics applications.
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