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Spin transport in graphene carries the potential of a long spin diffusion length at room temperature. However, extrinsic relaxation processes limit the current experimental values to 1-2 um. We present Hanle spin precession measurements in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-04 C. Jozsa , T. Maassen , M. Popinciuc , P. J. Zomer , A. Veligura , H. T. Jonkman , B. J. van Wees

Spintronics involves the development of low-dimensional electronic systems with potential use in quantum-based computation. In graphene, there has been significant progress in improving spin transport characteristics by encapsulation and…

Graphene nanoribbons and constrictions are envisaged as fundamental components of future carbon-based nanoelectronic and spintronic devices. At nanoscale, electronic effects in these devices depend heavily on the dimensions of the active…

Graphene is an attractive material for spintronics due to theoretical predictions of long spin lifetimes arising from low spin-orbit and hyperfine couplings. In experiments, however, spin lifetimes in single layer graphene (SLG) measured…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-23 Wei Han , Jen-Ru Chen , Deqi Wang , Kathleen M. McCreary , Hua Wen , Adrian G. Swartz , Jing Shi , Roland K. Kawakami

The unusual electronic properties of single-layer graphene make it a promising material system for fundamental advances in physics, and an attractive platform for new device technologies. Graphene's spin transport properties are expected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 Mark B. Lundeberg , Joshua A. Folk

Thanks to its intrinsic ability to preserve spin coherence, graphene is a prime material for spintronics. In this review article, we summarize recent achievements related to spintronics in graphene quantum dots and motivate this field from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Matthias Droth , Guido Burkard

Spin precession experiments in lateral spin devices are a powerful tool for probing the spin transport properties of materials. These experiments can be quantitatively described using the Bloch diffusion equation, which offers a practical…

In this work spin transport in corrugated armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNR) is studied. We survey combined effects of spin-orbit interaction and surface roughness, employing the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism and four…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Zahra Chaghazardi , Shoeib Babaee Touski , Rahim Faez , Mahdi Pourfath

Graphene has emerged as the foremost material for future two-dimensional spintronics due to its tuneable electronic properties. In graphene, spin information can be transported over long distances and, in principle, be manipulated by using…

The elimination of extrinsic sources of spin relaxation is key in realizing the exceptional intrinsic spin transport performance of graphene. Towards this, we study charge and spin transport in bilayer graphene-based spin valve devices…

We report the first measurements of spin injection in to graphene through a 20 nm thick tungsten disulphide (WS$_2$) layer, along with a modified spin relaxation time ({\tau}s) in graphene in the WS$_2$ environment, via spin-valve and Hanle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Siddhartha Omar , Bart J. van Wees

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

Owing to their unprecedented electronic properties, graphene and two-dimensional (2D) crystals have brought fresh opportunities for advances in planar spintronic devices. Graphene is an ideal medium for spin transport while also being an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 I. G. Serrano , J. Panda , Fernand Denoel , Örjan Vallin , Dibya Phuyal , Olof Karis , M. Venkata Kamalakar

A principal motivation to develop graphene for future devices has been its promise for quantum spintronics. Hyperfine and spin-orbit interactions are expected to be negligible in single-layer graphene. Spin transport experiments, on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-24 Mark B. Lundeberg , Rui Yang , Julien Renard , Joshua A. Folk

The theoretically predicted intrinsic spin relaxation time of up to 1 $\mu s$ in graphene along with extremely high mobilities makes it a promising material in spintronics. In spite of extensive experimental studies of spin relaxation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Si Chen , Roald Ruiter , Vikramaditya Mathkar , Bart J. van Wees , Tamalika Banerjee

Improved fabrication techniques have enabled the possibility of ballistic transport and unprecedented spin manipulation in ultraclean graphene devices. Spin transport in graphene is typically probed in a nonlocal spin valve and is analyzed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-25 Marc Vila , Jose H. Garcia , Aron W. Cummings , Stephen R. Power , Christoph W. Groth , Xavier Waintal , Stephan Roche

In graphene spintronics, interaction of localized magnetic moments with the electron spins paves a new way to explore the underlying spin relaxation mechanism. A self-assembled layer of organic cobalt-porphyrin (CoPP) molecules on graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 S. Omar , M. Gurram , I. J. Vera-Marun , X. Zhang , E. H. Huisman , A. Kaverzin , B. L. Feringa , B. J. van Wees

The understanding of spin dynamics and relaxation mechanisms in clean graphene and the upper time and length scales on which spin devices can operate are prerequisites to realizing graphene spintronic technologies. Here we theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Dinh Van Tuan , Frank Ortmann , Aron W. Cummings , David Soriano , Stephan Roche

Graphene is a promising substrate for future spintronics devices owing to its remarkable electronic mobility and low spin-orbit coupling. Hanle precession in spin valve devices is commonly used to evaluate the spin diffusion and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Emile Fourneau , Alejandro V. Silhanek , Ngoc D. Nguyen

Transport measurements on few layer graphene (FLG) are important as they interpolate between the properties of single layer graphene (SLG) as a true 2-dimensional material and the 3-dimensional bulk properties of graphite. In this article…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 T. Maassen , F. K. Dejene , M. H. D. Guimarães , C. Józsa , B. J. van Wees