Picosecond Competing Dynamics of Apparent Semiconducting-Metallic Phase Transition in the Topological Insulator Bi2Se3
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- Title
- Picosecond Competing Dynamics of Apparent Semiconducting-Metallic Phase Transition in the Topological Insulator Bi2Se3
- Authors
- SIM, SANGWAN; LEE, SEUNGMIN; MOON, JISOO; IN, CHIHUN; LEE, JEKWAN; NOH, MINJI; KIM, JEHYUN; JANG, WOOSUN; CHA, SOONYOUNG; SEO, SEUNGYOUNG; OH, SANGSHIK; KIM, DOHUN; SOON, ALOYSIUS; JO, MOON HO; CHOI, HYUNYONG
- Date Issued
- 2020-03-18
- Publisher
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- Abstract
- Resolving the complex interplay between surface and bulk response is a long-standing issue in the topological insulators (TIs). Some studies have reported surface-dominated metallic responses, yet others show semiconducting-like bulk photoconductance. Using ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy with the advent of Fermi-level engineered TIs, we discovered that such difference arises from the time-dependent competing process of two parameters, namely, the Dirac-carrier surface scattering rate and the bulk Drude weight. After infrared femtosecond pulse excitation, we observed a metal-like photoconductance reduction for the prototypical n-type Bi2Se3 and a semiconductor-like increased photoconductance for the p-type Bi2Se3. Surprisingly, the bulkinsulating Bi2Se3, which is presumably similar to graphene, exhibits a semiconducting-to-metallic phase apparent transition at 10 ps. The sign-reversed, yet long-lasting (>= 500 ps) metallic photoconductance was observed only in the bulk-insulating Bi2Se3, indicating that such dynamic phase transition is governed by the time-dependent competing interplay between the surface scattering rate and the bulk Drude weight. Our observations illustrate new photophysical phenomena of the photoexcited-phase transition in TIs and demonstrate entirely distinct dynamics compared to graphene and conventional gapped semiconductors.
- Keywords
- PHONON INTERACTION; THZ GENERATION; CONVERSION
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/101852
- DOI
- 10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01603
- ISSN
- 2330-4022
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- ACS PHOTONICS, vol. 7, no. 3, page. 759 - 764, 2020-03-18
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