期刊
JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH
卷 410, 期 -, 页码 23-29出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2014.10.011
关键词
A1. Annealing; A1. Surface roughness; A3. MBE growth; B1. BiSbTe3; B2. Topological insulator
资金
- Center for Solar and Thermal Energy Conversion, an Energy Frontier Research Center - U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences
We report on the growth of high-quality topological insulator BiSbTe3 films (thickness of 30 nm) on sapphire (0001) substrates through the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) technique and discuss the possibility to improve the film quality and surface flatness through annealing. Instead of using elemental Sb, the choice of Sb2Te3 as well as the use of solid sources of Bi and To assures excellent stability during thermal evaporation enabling layer-by-layer epitaxial growth of high-quality films of BiSbTe3. The crystallinity and the terrace size of the BiSbTe3 films are found to be improved through increasing the deposition temperature and/or after annealing at 540 K-620 K for 1-4 hours. The films grown at 485 K, 500 K, and 515 K exhibit root-mean-square (RMS) roughness of 2.9 nm, 2.3 nm, and 2.3 nm, respectively, whereas the RMS roughness is reduced to 0.6 nm or less when the films are annealed at 580 K for 2-4 hours. Annealing the film at too high temperature, such as 620 K, introduces a rougher surface due to the loss of material during annealing. A relatively low electron density of similar to 22 x 1018 cm(-3) (at 2 K) is achieved for the as-grown films deposited at 485 K and 500 K. Significantly enhanced electron density is found in the case of either increasing growth temperature or increasing annealing temperature. An exception is the film annealed at 620 K, which became a p-type conductor. In addition, weak antilocalization effects are evident for the n-type films, but they nearly vanish for p-type conducting films. The significant influence of temperature on the crystallinity, the surface roughness, and the electronic transport in BiSbTe3 films will be instructive for further investigations of the transport behavior of surface states in BiSbTe3 films. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
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