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Generating photogalvanic effects in centrosymmetric materials can provide new opportunities for developing passive photodetectors and energy harvesting devices. In this work, we investigate the photogalvanic effects in centrosymmetric…
Spintronics---the all-electrical control of the electron spin for quantum or classical information storage and processing---is one of the most promising applications of the two-dimensional material graphene. Although pristine graphene has…
It is well known that waves incident upon a crystal are transported only over a limited distance - the Bragg length - before being reflected by Bragg interference. Here, we demonstrate how to send waves much deeper into crystals, by…
Pure currents comprise the flow of a two state quantum freedom -- for example the electron spin -- in the absence of charge flow. Radically different from the charge currents that underpin present day electronics, in two dimensional…
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…
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…
We calculate the efficiency of infrared optical spin injection in single-layer graphene with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and for in-plane magnetic field. The injection rate in the photon frequency range corresponding to the Rashba splitting…
We present a methodology to address, from first principles, charge-spin interconversion in two-dimensional materials with spin-orbit coupling. Our study relies on an implementation of density functional theory based quantum transport…
Decrease of spin polarization in spintronics devices under an application of bias voltage is one of currently important problems which should be solved. We reveal unprecedented robustness of spin polarization in multi-layer graphene spin…
We suggest a consistent microscopic theory of spin injection from a ferromagnet (FM) into a semiconductor (S). It describes tunneling and emission of electrons through modified FM-S Schottky barrier with an ultrathin heavily doped…
Spin injection is a powerful experimental probe into a wealth of nonequilibrium spin-dependent phenomena displayed by materials with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we develop a theory of coupled spin-charge diffusive transport in…
We present a complete description of spin injection and detection in Fe/Al_xGa_{1-x}As/GaAs heterostructures for temperatures from 2 to 295 K. Measurements of the steady-state spin polarization in the semiconductor indicate three…
Pure spin-current is of central importance in spintronics. Here we propose a two-dimensional (2D) spin-battery system that delivers pure spin-current without an accompanying charge-current to the outside world at zero bias. The principle of…
We study the spin current injected by spin pumping into single layer graphene and the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with ferromagnetic contacts using scattering theory. The spin currents pumped into graphene are very distinct from…
We find efficient spin transport in Si at room temperature in lateral spin valves (LSVs). When the crystal orientation of the spin-transport channel in LSVs is changed from $\langle$110$\rangle$, which is a conventional cleavage direction,…
We investigate the electronic structure of graphene on a series of 2D hexagonal nitride insulators hXN, X = B, Al, and Ga, with DFT calculations. A symmetry-based model Hamiltonian is employed to extract orbital parameters and spin-orbit…
Coherent control of optically-injected carrier distributions in single and bilayer graphene allows the injection of electrical currents. Using a tight-binding model and Fermi's golden rule, we derive the carrier and photocurrent densities…
We demonstrate dynamic spin injection into chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown graphene by spin pumping from permalloy (Py) layers. Ferromagnetic resonance measurements at room temperature reveal a strong enhancement of the Gilbert…
We report the observation of current-induced spin polarization, the Rashba-Edelstein effect (REE), and its Onsager reciprocal phenomenon, the spin galvanic effect (SGE), in a few-layer graphene/2H-TaS2 heterostructure at room temperature.…
The generation of spatially homogeneous spin polarization by application of electric current is a fundamental manifestation of symmetry-breaking spin--orbit coupling (SOC) in solid-state systems, which underpins a wide range of spintronic…