Topological Insulator Materials

By Y. Ando. 2013

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Topological insulators represent a new quantum state of matter which is characterized by peculiar edge or surface states that show up due to a topological character of the bulk wave functions. This review presents a pedagogical account on topological insulator materials with an emphasis on basic theory and materials properties. After presenting a historical perspective and basic theories of topological insulators, it discusses all the topological insulator materials discovered as of May 2013, with some illustrative descriptions of the developments in materials discoveries in which the author was involved. A summary is given for possible ways to confirm the topological nature in a candidate material. Various synthesis techniques as well as the defect chemistry that are important for realizing bulk-insulating samples are discussed. Characteristic properties of topological insulators are discussed with an emphasis on transport properties. In particular, the Dirac fermion physics and the resulting peculiar qu...

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Y. Ando
2. G. Soboń
3. Masatoshi Sato
4. Tanmoy Das
5. Hsin Lin
6. Arun Bansil
7. Rudolf Podgornik
8. L. Schoop

In Materials Chemistry

1. Y. Ando
2. Tanmoy Das
3. Masatoshi Sato
4. Hsin Lin
5. Arun Bansil
6. G. Soboń
7. L. Schoop
8. Krzysztof M. Abramski

In Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

1. Masatoshi Sato
2. G. Soboń
3. L. Schoop
4. Krzysztof M. Abramski
5. J. Sotor
6. Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez
7. Alejandro W. Rodriguez
8. Alexandre Tkatchenko

Citations in the corpus

• A Short Course on Topological Insulators: Band-structure topology and edge states in one and two dimensions (2015, neutral): “Since that time, a host of materials have been shown to be threedimensional topological insulators, and thin films and quantum wires shown to be two- and one-dimensional topological insulators [2].”
• Harmonically mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser based on a Sb2Te3 topological insulator saturable absorber (2014, background): “In the last two years, a new class of nanomaterials called topological insulators [19, 20] has been investigated as broadband SAs for mode-locked [21–24] and Q-switched [25–27] fiber lasers.”