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- Title
Phase Separation Prevents the Synthesis of VBi 2 Te 4 by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.
- Authors
Altena, Marieke; Jansen, Thies; Tsvetanova, Martina; Brinkman, Alexander
- Abstract
Intrinsic magnetic topological insulators (IMTIs) have a non-trivial band topology in combination with magnetic order. This potentially leads to fascinating states of matter, such as quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators and axion insulators. One of the theoretically predicted IMTIs is VBi2Te4, but experimental evidence of this material is lacking so far. Here, we report on our attempts to synthesise VBi2Te4 by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). X-ray diffraction reveals that in the thermodynamic phase space reachable by MBE, there is no region where VBi2Te4 is stably synthesised. Moreover, scanning transmission electron microscopy shows a clear phase separation to Bi2Te3 and VTe2 instead of the formation of VBi2Te4. We suggest the phase instability to be due to either the large lattice mismatch between VTe2 and Bi2Te3 or the unfavourable valence state of vanadium.
- Subjects
PHASE separation; MAGNETIC insulators; SCANNING transmission electron microscopy; MOLECULAR beam epitaxy; TOPOLOGICAL insulators; PHASE space; PHASES of matter; VANADIUM
- Publication
Nanomaterials (2079-4991), 2024, Vol 14, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
2079-4991
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/nano14010087