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Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2017 Volume 51, Issue 4, Pages 435–439 (Mi phts6173)

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Electronic properties of semiconductors

On the peculiarities of galvanomagnetic effects in high magnetic fields in twisting bicrystals of the 3D topological insulator Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_{x}$ (0.07 $\le x\le$ 0.2)

F. M. Muntyanuab, E. I. Gheorghitsac, A. Gilewskib, V. Kistold, V. Bejanc, V. Munteanua

a Institute of Electronic Engineering and Industrial Technologies, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova
b International Laboratory of High Magnetic Fields and Low Temperatures, Wroclaw, Poland
c Technical University of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova
d Tiraspol State University, Chisinau, Moldova

Abstract: Galvanomagnetic effects in twisting bicrystals of Bi$_{1-x}$Sb$_{x}$ alloys (0.07 $\le x\le$ 0.2) at low temperatures and in magnetic fields up to 40 T are studied. It is found that, at small crystallite misorientation angles, the semiconductor–semimetal transition is induced in the central layer ($\sim$60-nm-thick) and two adjacent layers (each $\sim$20-nm-thick) of the interface at different values of ultraquantum magnetic field. Bicrystals with large misorientation angles, being located in strong magnetic fields, exhibit quantum oscillations of the magnetoresistance and the Hall effect, thus indicating that the density of states is higher and charge carriers are heavier in the adjacent layers of the interfaces than in the crystallites. Our results show also that twisting bicrystals contain regions with different densities of quantum electronic states, which are determined by the crystallite misorientation angle and magnetic-field strength.

Received: 13.07.2016
Accepted: 10.08.2016

DOI: 10.21883/FTP.2017.04.44331.8371


 English version:
Semiconductors, 2017, 51:4, 413–416

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