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The isolation of graphene has triggered an avalanche of studies into the spin-dependent physical properties of this material, as well as graphene-based spintronic devices. Here we review the experimental and theoretical state-of-art…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 Wei Han , Roland K. Kawakami , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

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

We propose a graphene device that can generate spin-dependent negative differential resistance (NDR). The device is composed of a sufficiently wide and short graphene and two gated EuO strips deposited on top of it. This scheme avoids…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-26 Yu Song , Yang Liu , Xiaolong Feng , Fei Yan , Wei-Zhi Zhang

Graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is the most promising material for industrial-scale applications based on graphene monolayers. It also holds promise for spintronics; despite being polycrystalline, spin transport in CVD…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Aron W. Cummings , Simon M. -M. Dubois , Jean-Christophe Charlier , Stephan Roche

We have fabricated graphene spin-valve devices utilizing scalable materials made from chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Both the spin-transporting graphene and the tunnel barrier material are CVD-grown. The tunnel barrier is realized by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Wangyang Fu , Péter Makk , Romain Maurand , Matthias Bräuninger , Christian Schönenberger

We report on spin transport features which are unique to high quality bilayer graphene, in absence of magnetic contaminants and strong intervalley mixing. The time-dependent spin polarization of propagating wavepacket is computed using an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Dinh Van Tuan , Shaffique Adam , Stephan Roche

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…

Since its discovery, graphene has been a promising material for spintronics: its low spin-orbit coupling, negligible hyperfine interaction, and high electron mobility are obvious advantages for transporting spin information over long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Jose H. Garcia , Marc Vila , Aron W. Cummings , Stephan Roche

The integration of the spin degree of freedom in charge-based electronic devices has revolutionised both sensing and memory capability in microelectronics. Further development in spintronic devices requires electrical manipulation of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Wenjing Yan , Oihana Txoperena , Roger Llopis , Hanan Dery , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

We examine the possibility of using graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with directly substituted chromium atoms as spintronic device. Using density functional theory, we simulate a voltage bias across a constructed GNR in a device setup, where a…

The use of graphene in spintronic devices is contingent on its ability to convert a spin current into a charge current. We have systematically investigated the spin pumping induced spin-to-charge current conversion at the Graphene/FM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Mahammad Tahir , Subhakanta Das , Mukul Gupta , Rohit Medwal , Soumik Mukhopadhyay

Spintronics has become a broad and important research field that intersects with magnetism, nano-electronics, and materials science. Its overarching aim is to provide a fundamental understanding of spin-dependent phenomena in solid-state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 David T. S. Perkins , Aires Ferreira

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have been proposed as potential building blocks for field effect transistor (FET) devices due to their quantum confinement bandgap. Here, we propose a novel GNR device concept, enabling the control of both charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Peter Vancso , Imre Hagymasi , Levente Tapaszto

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 specific band structure of graphene, with its unique valley structure and Dirac neutrality point separating hole states from electron states has led to the observation of new electronic transport phenomena such as anomalously quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Nikolaos Tombros , Csaba Jozsa , Mihaita Popinciuc , Harry T. Jonkman , Bart J. van Wees

We demonstrate injection, transport and detection of spins in spin valve arrays patterned in both copper based chemical vapor deposition (Cu-CVD) synthesized wafer scale single layer (SLG) and bilayer graphene (BLG). We observe spin…

Spin transport experiments in graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, indicate spin relaxation times that are significantly shorter than the theoretical predictions. We investigate experimentally whether these short spin relaxation times…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Popinciuc , C. Józsa , P. J. Zomer , N. Tombros , A. Veligura , H. T. Jonkman , B. J. van Wees

The possibility of transporting spin information over long distances in graphene, owing to its small intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and the absence of hyperfine interaction, has led to intense research into spintronic applications.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Dinh Van Tuan , Frank Ortmann , David Soriano , Sergio O. Valenzuela , Stephan Roche

Graphene is an interesting material for spintronics, showing long spin relaxation lengths even at room temperature. For future spintronic devices it is important to understand the behavior of the spins and the limitations for spin transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. H. D. Guimaraes , J. J. van den Berg , I. J. Vera-Marun , P. J. Zomer , B. J. van Wees

We propose encapsulating type-A antiferromagnetic semiconductors between graphene layers to realize a gate-tunable synthetic antiferromagnet with nonrelativistic spin splitting, enabling efficient spintronic transport via graphene. Ab…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Marko Milivojević , Martin Gmitra