Bulk and surface Rashba splitting in single termination BiTeCl
By angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) we observe a giant Rashba-type spin splitting in the electronic bulk conduction and valence bands of the semiconductor BiTeCl. This material belongs to the group of bismuth tellurohalides BiTeX (X=Cl,Br,I) which are layered non-centrosymmetric materials with strong spin-orbit interaction. By photon energy-dependent ARPES, we separate the bulk and surface contribution of the electronic structure and show that the tellurium-terminated (0001) crystal surface hosts spin-split two-dimensional surface states. On the chlorine-terminated surface at the opposite side of the crystal no surface states are observed due to photon-induced surface chemistry.
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Landolt, G., Eremeev, S. V., Tereshchenko, O. E., Muff, S., Slomski, B., Kokh, K. A., Kobayashi, M., Schmitt, T., Strocov, V. N., Osterwalder, J., Chulkov, E. V., & Dil, J. H. (2013). Bulk and surface Rashba splitting in single termination BiTeCl. New Journal of Physics, 15, Article 085022. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/8/085022
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2013
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085022
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