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Silicene has introduced itself as an outstanding novel material, which seeks its meritorious place among common spintronic devices like Cu and Ag. In this work, photogalvanic effect in silicene is studied within the semi-classical approach…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-23 Neda Shahabi , Arash Phirouznia

We study spin-valley and lattice-pseudo spin currents in a dual ferromagnetic-gated silicene-based junction. Silicene has buckled atomic structure which allows us to take sublattice-dependent ferromagnetism into account in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Peerasak Chantngarm , Kou Yamada , Bumned Soodchomshom

A magnetic "spin filter" tunnel barrier, sandwiched between a non-magnetic metal and a magnetic metal, is used to create a new magnetoresistive tunnel device, somewhat analogous to an optical polarizer-analyzer configuration. The resistance…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 P. LeClair , J. K. Ha , H. J. M. Swagten , C. H. van de Vin , J. T. Kohlhepp , W. J. M. de Jonge

Electron valleys in transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers drive novel physics and allow designing multifunctional architectures for applications. We propose to manipulate the electron valleys in these systems for spin/valley filter and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Ao Zhang , Kaike Yang , Yun Zhang , Anlian Pan , Mingxing Chen

Employing first-principles calculations, we investigate efficiency of spin injection from a ferromagnetic (FM) electrode (Ni) into graphene and possible enhancement by using a barrier between the electrode and graphene. Three types of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-05 Qingyun Wu , Lei Shen , Zhaoqiang Bai , Minggang Zeng , Ming Yang , Zhigao Huang , Yuan Ping Feng

We propose and demonstrate that a EuO-induced and top-gated graphene ferromagnetic junction can be simultaneously operated as a spin filter as well as a spin valve. We attribute such a remarkable result to a coexistence of a half-metal band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Yu Song , Gang Dai

We show that a bilayer graphene flake deposited above a ferromagnetic insulator can behave as a spin-filtering device. The ferromagnetic material induces exchange splitting in the graphene flake, and due to the Fano antiresonances occurring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. A. Orellana , L. Rosales , L. Chico , M. Pacheco

We propose a valley- and spin-filter based on a normal/ferromagnetic/normal molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) junction where the polarizations of the valley and the spin can be inverted by reversing the direction of the exchange field in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Leyla Majidi , Moslem Zare , Reza Asgari

Spin-valley transport and magnetoresistance are investigated in silicene-based N/TB/N/TB/N junction where N and TB are normal silicene and topological barriers. The topological phase transitions in TB's are controlled by electric, exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Worasak Prarokijjak , Bumned Soodchomshom

We consider tunneling transport between two parallel graphene sheets where one is a single-layer sample and the other one a bilayer. In the presence of an in-plane magnetic field, the interplay between combined energy and momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 L Pratley , U. Zuelicke

We study ballistic transport of Dirac fermions in silicene through arrays of barriers, of width $d$, in the presence of an exchange field $M$ and a tunable potential of height $U$ or depth $-U$. The spin- and valley-resolved conductances as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 N. Missault , P. Vasilopoulos , V. Vargiamidis , F. M. Peeters , B. Van Duppen

Silicene and germanene are key materials for the field of valleytronics. However, interaction with the substrate, which is necessary to support the electronically active medium, becomes a major obstacle. In the present work, we propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-16 Shahid Sattar , Nirpendra Singh , Udo Schwingenschlögl

We study intrinsic DC spin and valley Hall conductivity in doped ferromagnetic silicene in the presence of an electric filed applied perpendicular to silicene sheet. By calculating its energy spectrum and wavefunction and by making use of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-16 Yawar Mohammadi , Borhan Arghavani Nia

We present a theoretical study, based on density functional theory and tight binding modeling, of the electronic structure and spin transport properties of silicon nanoparticles with adsorbed bismuth atoms. We find the bismuth atoms to form…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Alireza Saffarzadeh , George Kirczenow

We present a single barrier system to generate pure valley-polarized current in monolayer graphene. A uniaxial strain is applied within the barrier region, which is delineated by localized magnetic field created by ferromagnetic stripes at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

Non-equilibrium spin-polarized transport properties of antiferromagnetic stanene nanoribbons are theoretically studied under the combining effect of a normal electric field and linearly polarized irradiation based on the tight-binding model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Fatemeh Rahimi , Arash Phirouznia

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

In this Letter, both the manipulation of valley-polarized currents and the optical-like behaviors of Dirac fermions are theoretically explored in polycrystalline graphene. When strain is applied, the misorientation between two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Viet Hung Nguyen , Samuel Dechamps , Philippe Dollfus , Jean-Christophe Charlier

The electronic properties of the novel two dimensional (2D) material silicene are strongly influenced by the application of a perpendicular electric field $E_z$ and of an exchange field $M$ due to adatoms positioned on the surface or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 B. Van Duppen , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

It is shown that, for appropriate values of electron energy, the silicene dot can work as a controllable spin polarizer. The spin polarizer can polarize the spin of transmitted electrons from nearly pure down to nearly pure up by changing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-19 Hamidreza Simchi , Mahdi Esmaeilzadeh , Hossein Mazidabadi , Mohammad Norouzi