Topological semimetals host interesting new types of low-energy quasiparticles such as type-I and type-II Dirac and Weyl fermions. Type-III topological semimetals can emerge exactly at the border between type-I and II, characterized by a line-like Fermi surface and a flat energy dispersion near the topological band crossing. Here, we theoretically predict that 1T-HfTe2 and 1T-ZrTe2 transition metal dichalcogenides are type-I and type-II DSMs, respectively. By alloying the two materials, a new HfxZr1−xTe2 alloy with type-III Dirac cone emerges at x = 0.2, in combination with 1% in-plane compressive strain. By imaging the electronic energy bands with in situ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of this random alloy with the desired composition, grown by molecular beam epitaxy on InAs(111) substrates, we provide experimental evidence that the tοp of type-III Dirac cone lies at—or very close to—the Fermi level.
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21 February 2021
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February 19 2021
Type-III Dirac fermions in HfxZr1−xTe2 topological semimetal candidate
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Topological Materials and Devices
Sotirios Fragkos
;
Sotirios Fragkos
a)
1
Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’
, 15310 Athens, Greece
2
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of West Attica
, 12241 Athens, Greece
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Polychronis Tsipas
;
Polychronis Tsipas
1
Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’
, 15310 Athens, Greece
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Evangelia Xenogiannopoulou
;
Evangelia Xenogiannopoulou
1
Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’
, 15310 Athens, Greece
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Yerassimos Panayiotatos
;
Yerassimos Panayiotatos
2
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of West Attica
, 12241 Athens, Greece
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Athanasios Dimoulas
Athanasios Dimoulas
a)
1
Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’
, 15310 Athens, Greece
3
Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
, 15772 Athens, Greece
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Note: This paper is part of the Special Topic on Topological Materials and Devices.
J. Appl. Phys. 129, 075104 (2021)
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Received:
November 26 2020
Accepted:
February 04 2021
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Sotirios Fragkos, Polychronis Tsipas, Evangelia Xenogiannopoulou, Yerassimos Panayiotatos, Athanasios Dimoulas; Type-III Dirac fermions in HfxZr1−xTe2 topological semimetal candidate. J. Appl. Phys. 21 February 2021; 129 (7): 075104. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0038799
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