The ability to control the generation of spins in arbitrary directions is a long-sought goal in spintronics. Charge-to-spin interconversion (CSI) phenomena depend strongly on symmetry. Systems with reduced crystal symmetry allow anisotropic CSI with unconventional components, where charge and spin currents and the spin polarization are not mutually perpendicular to each other. Here, we demonstrate experimentally that the CSI in graphene-WTe2 induces spins with components in all three spatial directions. By performing multi-terminal nonlocal spin precession experiments, with specific magnetic field orientations, we discuss how to disentangle the CSI from the spin Hall and inverse spin galvanic effects.
@article{arxiv.2212.11691,
title = {Resolving spin currents and spin densities generated by charge-spin interconversion in systems with reduced crystal symmetry},
author = {Lorenzo Camosi and Josef Svetlik and Marius V. Costache and Williams Savero Torres and Iván Fernández Aguirre and Vera Marinova and Dimitre Dimitrov and Marin Gospodinov and Juan F. Sierra and Sergio O. Valenzuela},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.11691},
year = {2022}
}