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Graphene has attracted much attention as one of promising candidates of future high-speed transistor materials because of its high carrier mobility of more than 10,000 cm2 V-1 s-1. Up to this point, we have focused on the contact properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-04-26 Kosuke Nagashio , Akira Toriumi

The spin absorption process in a ferromagnetic material depends on the spin orientation relativelyto the magnetization. Using a ferromagnet to absorb the pure spin current created within a lateralspin-valve, we evidence and quantify a…

Spin-bottlenecks are created in magnetic-tunnel-junction devices by spatial inhomogeneity in the relative resistances for up and down spins. We propose a simple electrical circuit model for these devices which incorporates spin-bottleneck…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Jungwirth , A. H. MacDonald

A spin field effect transistor (FET) is proposed by utilizing a graphene nanoribbon as the channel. Similar to the conventional spin FETs, the device involves ferromagnetic metals as a source and drain; they, in turn, are connected to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-23 Y. G. Semenov , K. W. Kim , J. M. Zavada

For graphene nanoribbons with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, the peculiar magnetic response due to the presence of a magnetization and geometric confinement are analyzed within a tight-binding model. We observe a sizable transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Matheus S. M. de Sousa , Manfred Sigrist , Wei Chen

Spin field-effect transistors (SFETs) are promising candidates for low-power spin-based electronics, yet existing realizations that rely on spin-orbit coupling are constrained by limited material choices and short spin-coherence lengths.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-03 Ziye Zhu , Xianzhang Chen , Xunkai Duan , Zhou Cui , Jiayong Zhang , Igor Zutic , Tong Zhou

We investigate the spin Hall effect in a single-layer graphene device with disorder and interface-induced spin-orbit coupling. Our graphene device is connected to four semi-infinite leads that are embedded in a {Landauer-B\"uttiker} setup…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-11 Juliana M. da Silva , Fernando A. F. Santana , Jorge G. G. S. Ramos , Anderson L. R. Barbosa

The electron transport properties of hybrid ferromagnetic|normal metal structures such as multilayers and spin valves depend on the relative orientation of the magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic elements. Whereas the contrast in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Paul J. Kelly

The bias dependence of spin injection in graphene lateral spin valves is systematically studied to determine the factors affecting the tunneling spin injection efficiency. Three types of junctions are investigated, including MgO and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Tiancong Zhu , Simranjeet Singh , Jyoti Katoch , Hua Wen , Kirill Belashchenko , Igor Žutić , Roland K. Kawakami

We report the observation of the spin valve effect in (Ga,Mn)As/p-GaAs/(Ga,Mn)As trilayer devices. Magnetoresistance measurements carried out in the current in plane geometry reveal positive magnetoresistance peaks when the two…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Xiang , B. L. Sheu , M. Zhu , P. Schiffer , N. Samarth

We report a theoretical low-field magnetotransport study unveiling the effect of pseudospin in realistic models of weakly disordered graphene-based materials. Using an efficient Kubo computational method, and simulating the effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Frank Ortmann , Alessandro Cresti , Gilles Montambaux , Stephan Roche

Our proposed spin valve prototype showcases a sophisticated design featuring a two-dimensional graphene bilayer positioned between layers of ${CrBr}_3$ ferromagnetic insulators. In this model, proximity coupling plays a pivotal role,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 S. K. Behera , P. C. Ramamurthy

We theoretically investigate spin-dependent transport in a TMD-based vertical spin valve, taking WSe$_2$ as a representative example. Using effective Hamiltonians for the heterostructure and the Landauer formula, we derive the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Yibo Wang , Yuchen Liu , Xinhe Wang , Wang Yang

We theoretically investigate the spin-dependent transport for the system of an armchair-edge graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) between two ferromagnetic (FM) leads with arbitrary polarization directions at low temperatures, where a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Benhu Zhou , Xiongwen Chen , Benliang Zhou , Kai-He Ding , Guanghui Zhou

The Coulomb interaction between electrons of opposite spin orientations in a metal or in a doped semiconductor results in a negative off-diagonal component of the electrical resistivity matrix -- the so-called "spin-drag resistivity". It is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Vignale

Starting from a low-energy effective Hamiltonian model, we theoretically calculate the dynamical optical conductivity and permittivity tensor of a magnetized graphene layer with Rashba spin orbit coupling (SOC). Our results reveal a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Mohammad Alidoust , Klaus Halterman

We report on transport measurements of the insulating state that forms at the charge neutrality point of graphene in a magnetic field. Using both conventional two-terminal measurements, sensitive to bulk and edge conductance, and Corbino…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Yue Zhao , Paul Cadden-Zimansky , Fereshte Ghahari , Philip Kim

The contact properties between metal and graphene were examined. The electrical measurement on a multiprobe device with different contact areas revealed that the current flow preferentially entered graphene at the edge of the contact metal.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 K. Nagashio , T. Nishimura , K. Kita , A. Toriumi

Graphene supported on a transition metal dichalcogenide substrate offers a novel platform to study the spin transport in graphene in presence of a substrate induced spin-orbit coupling, while preserving its intrinsic charge transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Siddhartha Omar , Bart J. van Wees

By successive oxygen treatments of graphene non-local spin-valve devices we achieve a gradual increase of the contact resistance area products ($R_cA$) of Co/MgO spin injection and detection electrodes and a transition from linear to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 F. Volmer , M. Drögeler , E. Maynicke , N. von den Driesch , M. L. Boschen , G. Güntherodt , C. Stampfer , B. Beschoten