期刊
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 83, 期 23, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.83.235414
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [NSF-DMR-0839955, NSF-DMR-0611595]
- US Army Research Office Materials Science Division [W911NF-09-1-05-29]
- Boeing Corporation
- Swiss National Science Foundation SCOPES
Many thermoelectrics such as Bi exhibit Rashba spin-orbit surface bands for which topological insulator behavior consisting of ultrahigh mobilities and enhanced thermopower has been predicted. Bi nanowires realize surface-only electronic transport since they become bulk insulators when they undergo the bulk semimetal-semiconductor transition as a result of quantum confinement for diameters close to 50 nm. We studied 20, 30, 50, and 200 nm trigonal Bi wires. Shubnikov-de Haas magnetoresistance oscillations caused by surface electrons and bulklike holes enable the determination of their densities and mobilities. Surface electrons have high mobilities exceeding 2 m(2) sec(-1) V-1 and contribute strongly to the thermopower, dominating for temperatures T < 100 K. The surface thermopower is -1.2 T mu V/K-2, a value that is consistent with theory, raising the prospect of developing nanoscale thermoelectrics based on surface bands.
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