Novel Family of Chiral-Based Topological Insulators: Elemental Tellurium under Strain
First-principles prediction that elemental Tellurium undergoes a trivial insulator to strong topological insulator (metal) transition under shear (hydrostatic or uniaxial) strain.
The underlying mechanism: depopulation of lone-pair orbitals associated with the valence band via proper strain engineering.
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