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Graphene spintronics offers a promising route to achieve low power 2D electronics for next generation classical and quantum computation. As device length scales are reduced to the limit of the electron mean free path, the transport…

Electrical current can be completely spin polarized in a class of materials known as half-metals, as a result of the coexistence of metallic nature for electrons with one spin orientation and insulating for electrons with the other. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Young-Woo Son , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

We study spin dependent transport through a magnetic bilayer graphene nanojunction configured as two dimensional normal/ferromagnetic/normal structure where the gate-voltage is applied on the layers of ferromagnetic graphene. Based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 Hosein Cheraghchi , Fatemeh Adinehvand

We find clear signatures of spin-dependent negative differential resistance in compound systems comprising a graphene nanoribbon and a set of ferromagnetic insulator strips deposited on top of it. The periodic array of ferromagnetic strips…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 J. Munárriz , C. Gaul , A. V. Malyshev , P. A. Orellana , C. A. Müller , F. Domínguez-Adame

Graphene-based materials show promise for spintronic applications due to their potentially large spin coherence length. On the other hand, because of their small intrinsic spin-orbit interaction, an external magnetic source is desirable in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paolo Michetti , Patrik Recher

The development of a spintronics device relies on efficient generation of spin polarized currents and their electric field controlled manipulation. While observation of exceptionally long spin relaxation lengths make graphene an intriguing…

We propose a device concept, based on monolayer stanene, able to provide highly polarized spin currents (up to a $98\%$) with voltage-controlled spin polarization operating at room temperature and with small operating voltage ($0.3$ V). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 Enrique G. Marin , Damiano Marian , Giuseppe Iannaccone , Gianluca Fiori

The demand for compact, high-speed and energy-saving circuitry urges higher efficiency of spintronic devices that can offer a viable alternative for the current electronics. The route towards this goal suggests implementing two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Talieh S. Ghiasi , Alexey A. Kaverzin , Avalon H. Dismukes , Dennis K. de Wal , Xavier Roy , Bart J. van Wees

We study the spin-resolved transport through magnetic nanostructures in monolayer and bilayer graphene. We take into account both the orbital effect of the inhomogeneous perpendicular magnetic field as well as the in-plane spin splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-04 L. Dell'Anna , A. De Martino

We study the influence of ripple waves originating from the electromechanical effects on spin relaxation caused by electromagnetic fields in armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). By utilizing analytical expressions supported by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick Melnik , Shyam Badu

We theoretically design a graphene-based all-organic ferromagnetic semiconductor by terminating zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) with organic magnets. A large spin-split gap with 100% spin polarized density of states near the Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 D. Hou , J. H. Wei , S. J. Xie

The abilities to inject and detect spin carriers are fundamental for research on transport and manipulation of spin information. Pure electronic spin currents have been recently studied in nanoscale electronic devices using a non-local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 I. J. Vera-Marun , V. Ranjan , B. J. van Wees

We study the low energy spin excitations of zigzag graphene nanoribbons of varying width. We find their energy dispersion at small wave vector to be dominated by antiferromagnetic correlations between the ribbon's edges, in accrodance with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-29 F. Culchac , A. Latge , A. T. Costa

Silicene, germanene and stanene are two-dimensional topological insulators exhibiting helical edge states. We investigate global and local manipulations at the edges by exposing them to (i) a charge-density-wave order, (ii) a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 Stephan Rachel , Motohiko Ezawa

We calculated a spin-polarized conductance in the almost unexplored nanostructure "high temperature ferromagnetic insulator/ graphene/ ferroelectric film" with a special attention to the impact of electric polarization rotation in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-02 Eugene A. Eliseev , Anna N. Morozovska , Maksym V. Strikha

The lack of some spatial symmetries in planar devices with Rashba spin-orbit interaction opens the possibility of producing spin polarized electrical currents in absence of external magnetic field or magnetic impurities. We study how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Leonor Chico , A. Latgé , Luis Brey

Graphene has remarkable opportunities for spintronics due to its high mobility and long spin diffusion length, especially when encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). Here, for the first time, we demonstrate gate-tunable spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jinsong Xu , Simranjeet Singh , Jyoti Katoch , Guanzhong Wu , Tiancong Zhu , Igor Zutic , Roland K. Kawakami

We propose three-terminal spin devices with graphene nanoribbons (terminals) and a graphene flake (channel) to generate a highly spin-polarized current without an external magnetic field or ferromagnetic electrodes. The Hubbard repulsion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 Rouhollah Farghadan , Alireza Saffarzadeh

We investigate the coupling of spin and thermal currents as a means to rise the thermoelectric efficiency of nanoscale graphene devices. We consider nanostructures composed of overlapping graphene nanoribbons with ferromagnetic contacts in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Leonor Chico , P. A. Orellana , L. Rosales , M. Pacheco

Graphene nanoribbons are the counterpart of carbon nanotubes in graphene-based nanoelectronics. We investigate the electronic properties of chemically modified ribbons by means of density functional theory. We observe that chemical…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 F. Cervantes-Sodi , G. Csányi , S. Piscanec , A. C. Ferrari