Top-Down Fabrication of Bulk-Insulating Topological Insulator Nanowires for Quantum Devices.
Nano Lett
; 23(7): 2846-2853, 2023 Apr 12.
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In a nanowire (NW) of a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI), the quantum confinement of topological surface states leads to a peculiar sub-band structure that is useful for generating Majorana bound states. Top-down fabrication of TINWs from a high-quality thin film would be a scalable technology with great design flexibility, but there has been no report on top-down-fabricated TINWs where the chemical potential can be tuned to the charge neutrality point (CNP). Here we present a top-down fabrication process for bulk-insulating TINWs etched from high-quality (Bi1-xSbx)2Te3 thin films without degradation. We show that the chemical potential can be gate-tuned to the CNP, and the resistance of the NW presents characteristic oscillations as functions of the gate voltage and the parallel magnetic field, manifesting the TI-sub-band physics. We further demonstrate the superconducting proximity effect in these TINWs, preparing the groundwork for future devices to investigate Majorana bound states.
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