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Intrinsic defects and mid-gap states in quasi-one-dimensional Indium Telluride

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Recently, intriguing physical properties have been unraveled in anisotropic semiconductors, in which the in-plane electronic band structure anisotropy often originates from the low crystallographic symmetry. The atomic chain is the ultimate limit in material downscaling for electronics, a frontier for establishing an entirely new field of onedimensional quantum materials. Electronic and structural properties of chain-like InTe are essential for better understanding of device applications such as thermoelectrics. Here, we use scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS) measurements and density functional theory (DFT) calculations to directly image the in-plane structural anisotropy in tetragonal Indium Telluride (InTe). As results, we report the direct observation of one-dimensional In 1+ chains in InTe. We demonstrate that InTe exhibits a band gap of about 0.40  0.02 eV located at the M point of the Brillouin zone. Additionally, line defects are observed in our sample, were attributed to In 1+ chain vacancy along the c-axis, a general feature in many other TlSe-like compounds. Our STS and DFT results prove that the presence of In 1+ induces localized gap state, located near the valence band maximum (VBM). This acceptor state is responsible for the high intrinsic p-type doping of InTe that we also confirm using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.
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hal-04190986 , version 1 (30-08-2023)
hal-04190986 , version 2 (08-09-2023)

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Meryem Bouaziz, Aymen Mahmoudi, Geoffroy Kremer, Julien Chaste, Cesar Gonzalez, et al.. Intrinsic defects and mid-gap states in quasi-one-dimensional Indium Telluride. 2023. ⟨hal-04190986v1⟩
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