Dielectric and transient electrical response of SmB6 single crystals

On the Chemistry and Physical Properties of Flux and Floating Zone Grown SmB6 Single Crystals

Recent theoretical and experimental findings suggest the long-known but not well understood low temperature resistance plateau of SmB6 may originate from protected surface states arising from a topologically non-trivial bulk band structure having strong Kondo hybridization. Yet others have ascribed this feature to impurities, vacancies, and surface reconstructions. Given the typical methods use...

Dielectric properties of lithium triborate single crystals

Dielectric anomalies in †111‡ oriented 0.955Pb„Zn1Õ3Nb2Õ3...O3À0.045PbTiO3 single crystals under different electrical and thermal conditions

A detailed investigation has been conducted on the dielectric anomalies induced by different electrical and thermal conditions in @111# oriented 0.955Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O320.045PbTiO3 ~PZN-4.5%PT! single crystals. Application of a dc electrical field to the crystal results in field induced dielectric anomalies to occur at specific temperatures, which can be explained by the structural phase transiti...

ERRATUM: Large, high quality single-crystals of the new Topological Kondo Insulator, SmB6

SmB6 has recently been predicted to be a Topological Kondo Insulator, the first strongly correlated heavy fermion material to exhibit topological surface states. High quality crystals are necessary to investigate the topological properties of this material. Single crystal growth of the rare earth hexaboride, SmB6, has been carried out by the floating zone technique using a high power xenon arc ...

Dielectric loss of SrTiO3 single crystals under direct current bias

The dielectric behavior of SrTiO3 single crystals under high dc electric field ~up to 50 kV/cm! is reported in this letter. The rounded dielectric constant peaks are induced by the application of dc bias, and the corresponding dielectric losses are observed. The results show that dielectric loss under dc bias consists of several components coming from ‘‘defects mode’’ and ‘‘induced mode.’’ The ...