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Tailoring emergent spin phenomena in Dirac material heterostructures
Khokhriakov, Dmitrii (Chalmers University of Technology)
Cummings, Aron (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
Song, Kenan (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
Vila Tusell, Marc (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
Karpiak, Bogdan (Chalmers University of Technology)
Dankert, André (Chalmers University of Technology)
Roche, Stephan (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
Dash, Saroj P. (Chalmers University of Technology)

Date: 2018
Abstract: Dirac materials such as graphene and topological insulators (TIs) are known to have unique electronic and spintronic properties. We combine graphene with TIs in van der Waals heterostructures to demonstrate the emergence of a strong proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling in graphene. By performing spin transport and precession measurements supported by ab initio simulations, we discover a strong tunability and suppression of the spin signal and spin lifetime due to the hybridization of graphene and TI electronic bands. The enhanced spin-orbit coupling strength is estimated to be nearly an order of magnitude higher than in pristine graphene. These findings in graphene-TI heterostructures could open interesting opportunities for exploring exotic physical phenomena and new device functionalities governed by topological proximity effects.
Grants: European Commission 785219
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad SEV-2013-0295
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FIS2015-67767-P
Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2014/SGR-58
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Language: Anglès
Document: Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in: Science advances, Vol. 4, Núm. 9 (September 2018) , art. aat9349, ISSN 2375-2548

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat9349
PMID: 30255150


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