Limin She

Thickness-dependent electronic transition and emergent edge states in few-layer SmTe(111) films

Two-dimensional rare-earth chalcogenides exhibit promising quantum phenomena for nanoelectronics. We synthesized non-van der Waals samarium telluride (SmTe) films on Ag(111) through ultrahigh vacuum co-deposition and characterized them using scanning tunneling microscopy. Our mea...