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There has been tremendous interest in manipulating electron and hole-spin states in low-dimensional structures for electronic and spintronic applications. We study the edge magnetic coupling and anisotropy in zigzag stanene nanoribbons, by…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-26 Jingshan Qi , Kaige Hu , Xiao Li

In this work we investigate the spin-dependent transport through a double quantum dot embedded in a ferromagnetic tunnel junction and side attached to a topological superconducting nanowire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Piotr Majek , Ireneusz Weymann

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically protected states that are very promising for the design of the next generation of ultralow-power electronic devices. In this letter, we propose a magnetic tunnel junction based spin-transfer torque diode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 G. Finocchio , M. Ricci , R. Tomasello , A. Giordano , M. Lanuzza , V. Puliafito , P. Burrascano , B. Azzerboni , M. Carpentieri

We present a simple device made of two small capacitively coupled quantum dots in parallel. This set-up can be used as an efficient "Stern-Gerlach" spin filter, able to simultaneously produce, from a normal metallic lead, two oppositely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Denis Feinberg , Pascal Simon

Spintronics, a technology harnessing electron spin for information transmission, offers a promising avenue to surpass the limitations of conventional electronic devices. While the spin directly interacts with the magnetic field, its control…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Run-Wu Zhang , Chaoxi Cui , Runze Li , Jingyi Duan , Lei Li , Zhi-Ming Yu , Yugui Yao

In this work, we study the conductance and the thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot embedded between two metallic leads with a side-coupled triple quantum dot molecule under a magnetic field. We focus on the spin polarization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 J. P. Ramos-Andrade , F. J. Peña , A. González , O. Ávalos-Ovando , P. A. Orellana

We propose a highly efficient silicene device for dual spin and valley filtering. The device consists of two different barrier regions: the first is a region under uniaxial strain, with an exchange field induced by adjacent top and bottom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

We consider thermoelectric transport properties of the edge states of a two dimensional topological insulator in a double quantum point contact geometry coupled to two thermally biased reservoirs. Both spin-preserving and spin-flipping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Flavio Ronetti , Luca Vannucci , Giacomo Dolcetto , Matteo Carrega , Maura Sassetti

Controlling spin current lies at the heart of spintronics and its applications. The sign of spin currents is monotonous in ferromagnets once the current direction is determined. Spin currents in antiferromagnets can possess opposite…

It has recently been shown that electronic transport in zigzag graphene nanoribbons becomes spin-polarized upon application of an electric field across the nanoribbon width. However, the electric fields required to experimentally induce…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-06 Bryan M. Wong , Simon H. Ye , Greg O'Bryan

We investigate the spin-polarized ballistic transport in a three-terminal Zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) device using a tight binding model, non-equilibrium Green function formalism within the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker framework. We study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Niharika Tamuli , Saumen Acharjee

Spin-polarized transport is investigated in normal metal-superconductor (NS) junctions as a function of interface transmissivity as well as temperature when the density of states of a superconductor is Zeeman-split in response to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-03 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei

Graphene is an ideal material for spin transport as very long spin relaxation times and lengths can be achieved even at room temperature. However, electrical spin injection is challenging due to the conductivity mismatch problem. Spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 D. I. Indolese , S. Zihlmann , P. Makk , C. Jünger , K. Thodkar , C. Schönenberger

We propose a spin-dependent resonant tunneling structure to efficiently inject spin-polarized current into silicon (Si). By means of a heavily doped polycrystalline Si (Poly-Si) between the ferromagnetic metal (FM) and Si to reduce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-01 L. K. Castelano , L. J. Sham

Manipulating operation states of coupled spin-torque nano-oscillators (STNOs), including their synchronization, is essential for applications such as complex oscillator networks. In this work we experimentally demonstrate selective control…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Yi Li , Xavier de Milly , Olivier Klein , Vincent Cros , Julie Grollier , Grégoire de Loubens

We study the nonequilibrium steady state of a mechanical resonator in the quantum regime realized by a suspended carbon nanotube quantum dot contacted by two ferromagnets. Because of the spin-orbit interaction and/or an external magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Pascal Stadler , Wolfgang Belzig , Gianluca Rastelli

The combination of large spontaneous polarization and fluidity makes the newly discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline phase (NF) responsive to electric fields in ways that have no counterpart in other materials. We probe this…

Numerical calculations indicate that by suitably controlling the individual gate voltages of a capacitively coupled parallel double quantum dot, with each quantum dot coupled to one of two independent non-magnetic channels, this system can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 Carlos A. Busser , Adrian E. Feiguin , George B. Martins

Quantitative understanding of the relationship between quantum tunneling and Fermi surface spin polarization is key to device design using topological insulator surface states. By using spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with…

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