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Journal Nonlinear World №2 for 2014 г.
Article in number:
Photogalvanic effect in two-dimensional topological insulator with tunneling contacts
Keywords: photogalvanic effect topological insulator conducting surface states spin-polarized current
Authors:
V.O. Kaladzhyan - Student, MPTI. E-mail: vardan1991@mail.ru
S.N. Artemenko - Professor, Principal Researcher, Kotel-nikov Institute of Radio Engineering, and Electronics Russian Academy of Sciences. E-mail: art@cplire.ru
Abstract:
We show theoretically that absorption of circularly polarized light leads to interband electrodipole transitions and results in edge electric current with direction being determined by light polarization. We consider applied tunneling contacts and show that in case of asymmetric illumination of contact domain spin-polarized current flows into contact and deduce the light intensity dependence of the current.
Pages: 49-50
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