Epitaxial growth of topological insulator $\beta$-Ag2Te thin films

Ayuki Takegawa, Kouya Imoto, Minoru Kawamura +2

We report epitaxial growth of $\beta$-Ag2Te thin films by molecular beam epitaxy. $\beta$-Ag2Te, recently identified as a topological insulator, was grown by depositing Ag on InP substrate…