Effects of strain-tunable valleys on charge transport in bismuth

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Main Authors: Hosoi, Suguru, Tachibana, Fumu, Sakaguchi, Mai, Ishida, Kentaro, Shimozawa, Masaaki, Izawa, Koichi, Fuseya, Yuki, Kinoshita, Yuto, Tokunaga, Masashi
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author Hosoi, Suguru
Tachibana, Fumu
Sakaguchi, Mai
Ishida, Kentaro
Shimozawa, Masaaki
Izawa, Koichi
Fuseya, Yuki
Kinoshita, Yuto
Tokunaga, Masashi
author_facet Hosoi, Suguru
Tachibana, Fumu
Sakaguchi, Mai
Ishida, Kentaro
Shimozawa, Masaaki
Izawa, Koichi
Fuseya, Yuki
Kinoshita, Yuto
Tokunaga, Masashi
contents The manipulation of the valley degree of freedom can boost the technological development of novel functional devices based on valleytronics. The current mainstream platform for valleytronics is to produce a monolayer with inversion asymmetry, in which the strain-band engineering through the substrates can serve to improve the performance of valley-based devices. However, pinpointing the effective role of strain is inevitable for the precise design of the desired valley structure. Here, we demonstrate the charge transport under continuously controllable external strain for bulk bismuth crystals with three equivalent electron valleys and one hole valley. The strain response of resistance, namely elastoresistance, exhibits the evolutions in both antisymmetric and symmetric channels with decreasing temperature. The elastoresistance behaviors mainly reflect the significant changes in valley density depending on the symmetry of induced strain, evidenced by our strain-dependent quantum oscillation measurements and first-principle band calculations under strain. These facts suggest the successful tune and evaluation of the valley populations through strain-dependent charge valley transport.
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spellingShingle Effects of strain-tunable valleys on charge transport in bismuth
Hosoi, Suguru
Tachibana, Fumu
Sakaguchi, Mai
Ishida, Kentaro
Shimozawa, Masaaki
Izawa, Koichi
Fuseya, Yuki
Kinoshita, Yuto
Tokunaga, Masashi
Materials Science
Strongly Correlated Electrons
The manipulation of the valley degree of freedom can boost the technological development of novel functional devices based on valleytronics. The current mainstream platform for valleytronics is to produce a monolayer with inversion asymmetry, in which the strain-band engineering through the substrates can serve to improve the performance of valley-based devices. However, pinpointing the effective role of strain is inevitable for the precise design of the desired valley structure. Here, we demonstrate the charge transport under continuously controllable external strain for bulk bismuth crystals with three equivalent electron valleys and one hole valley. The strain response of resistance, namely elastoresistance, exhibits the evolutions in both antisymmetric and symmetric channels with decreasing temperature. The elastoresistance behaviors mainly reflect the significant changes in valley density depending on the symmetry of induced strain, evidenced by our strain-dependent quantum oscillation measurements and first-principle band calculations under strain. These facts suggest the successful tune and evaluation of the valley populations through strain-dependent charge valley transport.
title Effects of strain-tunable valleys on charge transport in bismuth
topic Materials Science
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05285