Publications by Naunidh Singh Virk

Electronic properties of one-dimensional nanostructures of the Bi2Se3 topological insulator

2018

Dirac fermions at high-index surfaces of bismuth chalcogenide topological insulator nanostructures

Binary bismuth chalcogenides Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3, and related materials are currently being extensively investigated as the reference topological insulators (TIs) due to their simple surface-state band dispersion (single Dirac cone) and relatively large bulk ba ...

Nature Research2016

A Theoretical Investigation of Topological Insulator Nanostructures

Naunidh Singh Virk

The topology of the electron wavefunctions in certain band insulators can give rise to novel topological phases. Materials harbouring such topological phases are termed topological insulators (TI). A gapped bulk electronic spectrum, described by a topologi ...

EPFL2016

Electronic Transport in Graphene with Aggregated Hydrogen Adatoms

Oleg Yazyev, Gabriel Albert Autes, Fernando Gargiulo, Naunidh Singh Virk

Hydrogen adatoms and other species covalently bound to graphene act as resonant scattering centers affecting the electronic transport properties and inducing Anderson localization. We show that attractive interactions between adatoms on graphene and their ...

American Physical Society2014

Giant Ambipolar Rashba Effect in the Semiconductor BiTeI

Klaus Kern, Marco Grioni, Oleg Yazyev, Helmuth Berger, Philippe Bugnon, Alberto Crepaldi, Gabriel Albert Autes, Luca Moreschini, Simon Karl Moser, Cédric Tournier-Colletta

We observe a giant spin-orbit splitting in the bulk and surface states of the noncentrosymmetric semiconductor BiTeI. We show that the Fermi level can be placed in the valence or in the conduction band by controlling the surface termination. In both cases, ...

Amer Physical Soc2012