https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20122300020
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Topological Insulators Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
1 State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
2 State Key Laboratory for Surface Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
We summarize our recent scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) study of topological insulator thin films grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), which includes the observation of electron standing waves on topological insulator surface and the Landau quantization of topological surface states. The work has provided valuable information to the understanding of intriguing properties of topological insulators, as predicted by theory.
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