Abstract
We have fabricated bismuth (Bi) ultrathin films on a charge-density-wave (CDW) compound 1T-TaS2 and elucidated electronic states by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and first-principles band-structure calculations. We found that the Bi film on 1T-TaS2 undergoes a structural transition from (111) to (110) upon reducing the film thickness, accompanied by a drastic change in the energy band structure. We also revealed that while two-bilayer-thick Bi(110) film on Si(111) is characterized by a dispersive band touching the Fermi level ( EF), the energy band of the same film on 1T-TaS2 exhibits holelike dispersion with a finite energy gap at EF. We discuss the origin of such intriguing differences in terms of the CDW proximity effect.
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