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Spintronics aims to exploit the spin degree of freedom in solid state devices for data storage and information processing technologies. The fundamental spintronic device concepts such as creation, manipulation and detection of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 André Dankert , Saroj P. Dash

Graphene spintronics offers a promising route to achieve low power 2D electronics for next generation classical and quantum computation. As device length scales are reduced to the limit of the electron mean free path, the transport…

Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this subject, including both recent advances and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , S. Das Sarma

Since the discovery of graphene, a tremendous amount of two dimensional (2D) materials have surfaced. Their electronic properties can usually be well understood without considering correlations between electrons. On the other hand, strong…

In this review, we present recent theoretical developments on spin transport phenomena probed by ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) modulation in two-dimensional systems coupled to magnetic materials. We first address FMR linewidth enhancements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Yuya Ominato , Masaki Yama , Ai Yamakage , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

Integrating high-mobility graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) into spin transport devices is one of the key tasks in graphene spintronics. We use a van der Waals pickup technique to transfer CVD graphene by hexagonal boron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Marc Drögeler , Luca Banszerus , Frank Volmer , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Bernd Beschoten , Christoph Stampfer

In this minireview, we explore the main features and the prospect of plasmonics with two-dimensional semiconductors. Plasmonic modes in each class of van der Waals semiconductors have their own peculiarities, along with potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Amit Agarwal , Miriam S. Vitiello , Leonardo Viti , Anna Cupolillo , Antonio Politano

The rapidly growing class of atomically thin and tunable van der Waals materials is intensely investigated both in the context of fundamental science and for new technologies. There is in this connection a widespread need for new ways to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Shanshan Ding , Jose Antonio Valerrama Botia , Aleksi Julku , Zhigang Wu , G. M. Bruun

The development of van der Waals (vdW) crystals and their heterostructures has created a fascinating platform for exploring optoelectronic properties in the two-dimensional (2D) limit. With the recent discovery of 2D magnets, the control of…

Discovery of topological Weyl semimetals has revealed the opportunities to realize several extraordinary physical phenomena in condensed matter physics. Specifically, these semimetals with strong spin-orbit coupling, broken inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Bing Zhao , Dmitrii Khokhriakov , Yang Zhang , Huixia Fu , Bogdan Karpiak , Anamul Md. Hoque , Xiaoguang Xu , Yong Jiang , Binghai Yan , Saroj P. Dash

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

The emergence of topological magnetism in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials promoted 2D heterostructures as key building-blocks of devices for information technology based on topological concepts. Here, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-03 Nihad Abuawwad , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Hazem Abusara , Samir Lounis

A d-orbital electron has an anisotropic electron orbital and is a source of magnetism. The realization of a 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) embedded at a LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface surprised researchers in materials and physical sciences…

Most materials in available macroscopic quantities are polycrystalline. Graphene, a recently discovered two-dimensional form of carbon with strong potential for replacing silicon in future electronics, is no exception. There is growing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Oleg V. Yazyev , Steven G. Louie

The discovery of van der Waals (vdW) magnets opened up a new paradigm for condensed matter physics and spintronic technologies. However, the operations of active spintronic devices with vdW magnets are so far limited to cryogenic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Bing Zhao , Roselle Ngaloy , Anamul Md. Hoque , Bogdan Karpiak , Dmitrii Khokhriakov , Saroj P. Dash

The advent of altermagnetism, a new phase of magnetism, has garnered significant interest due to its extraordinary spin-polarized electronic bands despite zero net magnetization. Such spin-symmetry-guided robust non-relativistic alternating…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-15 Anil Kumar Singh , Pritam Deb

Two-dimensional (2D) graphene-like layered semiconductors provide a new platform for materials research because of their unique mechanical, electronic and optical attributes. Their in-plane covalent bonding and dangling-bond-free surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-29 Zhiming Shi , Xinjiang Wang , Yuanhui Sun , Yawen Li , Lijun Zhang

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures combining two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnets and semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) offer highly promising opportunities for tailoring 2D magnetism through interfacial proximity…

Two dimensional materials are usually envisioned as flat, truly 2D layers. However out-of-plane corrugations are inevitably present in these materials. In this manuscript, we show that graphene flakes encapsulated between insulating…

Experiments are finally revealing intricate facts about graphene which go beyond the ideal picture of relativistic Dirac fermions in pristine two dimensional (2D) space, two years after its first isolation. While observations of rippling…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Eun-Ah Kim , A. H. Castro Neto