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Occupancy of lattice positions probed by X-ray photoelectron diffraction: A case study of tetradymite topological insulatorsстатья
Статья опубликована в высокорейтинговом журнале
Статья опубликована в журнале из списка Web of Science и/или Scopus- Авторы: Vladimirova Nadezhda V., Frolov Alexander S., Sánchez-Barriga Jaime, Clark Oliver J., Matsui Fumihiko, Usachov Dmitry Yu, Muntwiler Matthias, Callaert Carolien, Hadermann Joke, Neudachina Vera, Tamm Marina E., Yashina Lada V.
- Журнал: SURFACES AND INTERFACES
- Год издания: 2022
- Первая страница: 102516
- DOI: 10.1016/j.surfin.2022.102516
- Аннотация: Occupancy of different structural positions in a crystal lattice often seems to play a key role in material properties. Several experimental techniques have been developed to uncover this issue, all of them being mostly bulk sensitive. However, many materials including topological insulators (TIs), which are among the most intriguing modern materials, are intended to be used in devices as thin films, for which the sublattice occupancy may differ from the bulk. One of the possible approaches to occupancy analysis is X-ray Photoelectron Diffraction (XPD), a structural method in surface science with chemical sensitivity. We applied this method in a case study of Sb2(Te1-xSex)3 mixed crystals, which belong to prototypical TIs. We used high-angle annular dark field (HAADF) scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) as a reference method to verify our analysis. We revealed that the XPD data for vacuum cleaved bulk crystals are in excellent agreement with the reference ones. Also, we demonstrate that the anion occupancy near a naturally formed surface can be rather different from that of the bulk. The present results are relevant for a wide range of compositions where the system remains a topological phase, as we ultimately show by probing the transiently occupied topological surface state above the Fermi level by ultrafast photoemission.
- Добавил в систему: Яшина Лада Валерьевна