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Electrical Observation of the Effective Mass in a Single-Crystal WTe2 Layer

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In order to investigate the effective mass of a single-crystalline WTe2 layer, we measured the temperature dependence of the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillation. In this method, the magnetoresistance with a perpendicular magnetic field is monitored by changing the temperature from 1.9 K to 6 K. The extracted effective mass of WTe2 for magnetic fields ranging from 6.8 T to 8.7 T is m* = 0.327m0 which is almost constant in this range. The theoretical expectation values of m*/m0 for the valence and the conduction bands are 0.58 and 0.26, respectively; the experimental value of the effective mass is between these two values. Thus, our results clearly show that single-crystalline WTe2 has both electron- and hole-like pockets that simultaneously contribute to electrical transport in the channel.

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  1. Center for Spintronics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, 02792, Korea

    Jeehoon Jeon & Hyun Cheol Koo

  2. Department of Applied Physics, Korea University, Sejong, 30019, Korea

    Jeehoon Jeon & Jinki Hong

  3. Center for Spintronics, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, 02792, Korea

    Tae-Eon Park & Chaun Jang

  4. Center of Electricity and Magnetism, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, 34113, Korea

    Taeyueb Kim

  5. KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Korea

    Hyun Cheol Koo

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Jeon, J., Park, TE., Jang, C. et al. Electrical Observation of the Effective Mass in a Single-Crystal WTe2 Layer. J. Korean Phys. Soc. 74, 154–158 (2019). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.74.154

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