Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Controlled large non-reciprocal charge transport in an intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4

  • Zhaowei Zhang,
  • Naizhou Wang,
  • Ning Cao,
  • Aifeng Wang,
  • Xiaoyuan Zhou,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Binghai Yan,
  • Wei-bo Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33705-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Non-reciprocal charge transport refers to the different resistance between positive and negative current, and is fundamental in a variety of applications, for instance, current rectification. Some materials exhibit intrinsic nonreciprocal transport, but manipulation of this can be challenging. Here, the authors demonstrate large non-reciprocal transport which can be switched magnetically, is stacking dependent, and can be tuned via an applied gate voltage.