Abstract

We study the effect of the strain on the energy bands of a TaIrTe₄ sheet and the photocurrent in the Cu-TaIrTe₄-Cu heterojunction by using the quantum transport simulations. It is found that the Weyl points can be completely broken with an increase of the strain along the z direction. One can obtain a large photocurrent in the Cu-TaIrTe₄-Cu heterojunction in the absence of the strain; while the photocurrent can be sharply enhanced by the strain and reach a large value. Accordingly, the maximum values of the photocurrent can be explained in terms of the transitions between peaks of density of states and band structures. The strain-induced energy bands and photocurrent exhibit anisotropic behaviors. Our results provide a novel, to the best of our knkowledge, route to effectively modulate the energy bands and the photocurrent by utilizing mechanical methods for TaIrTe₄-based devices.

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