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EPL
Volume 121, Number 6, March 2018
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Article Number | 67001 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/121/67001 | |
Published online | 11 May 2018 |
High-pressure studies on electronic transport properties of Te-substituted Bi2Se3–xTex topological insulators
1 Condensed Matter Physics Division, Materials Science Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute - Kalpakkam-603102, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University - Jerusalem 91904, Israel
(a) mani@igcar.gov.in (corresponding author)
Received: 23 February 2018
Accepted: 19 April 2018
Studies on the electrical transport properties of the 3D topological insulators Bi2Se3 under iso-electronic substitution of Te at Se sites and the application of external pressure have been performed to understand the evolution of its ground-state properties and to explore possible electronic phase transitions in Bi2Se3−xTex () systems. While the external pressure suppresses the metallic behaviour of Bi2Se3 arising from defect charge carriers leading ultimately to non-metal behaviour, the effect of pressure on Te-doped samples
seems to be more striking, and causes multiple electronic phase transitions such as an insulator-to-metal transition (MIT) followed by pressure-induced superconducting transition at higher pressures. All the critical parameters such as critical pressure for the occurrence of MIT
, superconductivity
and maximum pressure induced superconducting transition temperature
for given compositions are seen to exhibit maxima at
which is the composition that exhibits the most insulating behaviour with least concentration of defect charge carriers among the samples of Bi2Se3−xTex (
) series. The superconducting transition temperature
decreases with increasing pressure in
samples, while it remains nearly constant for Bi2Te3. Based on the analysis of the experimental data it is surmised that the pressure-induced superconductivity seen in these systems is of conventional (BCS) type.
PACS: 74.62.Fj – Effects of pressure / 71.30.+h – Metal-insulator transitions and other electronic transitions / 74.25.F- – Transport properties
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