High-field magnetoresistance and weak antilocalization phenomena in Bi2Te2Se and Bi2TeSe2 single crystals
摘要
The current work focused on the study of electronic and magnetotransport phenomena in the ternary topological insulators Bi2Te2Se and Bi2TeSe2. Powder XRD confirmed the formation of the rhombohedral phase with the space group R-3 m. Resistivity vs. temperature measurements over 2-300 K revealed the insulating nature of Bi2Te2Se. Its resistivity increased more than 70-fold from 249.55 μΩm at 300 K to 17,554.02 μΩm at 2 K, making it a sample with highly insulating bulk states, thus favourable for the topological surface states to manifest in transport. Bi2TeSe2 showed metallic behaviour, with resistivity increasing with temperature. The upturn in resistivity in Bi2TeSe2 below 40 K is suggestive of electron–electron interaction. Weak antilocalization (WAL) was observed in the magnetoconductivity (MC) of these samples. The Hikami–Larkin–Nagaoka model was fitted to magnetoconductivity data to estimate weak antilocalization quantitatively. The coherence length