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The conductance mismatch problem limits the spin-injection efficiency significantly, and spin-injection into graphene has been usually requiring high-quality tunnel barriers to circumvent the conductance mismatch. We introduce a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Zhenyao Tang1 , Eiji Shikoh1 , Hiroki Ago2 , Kenji Kawahara2 , Yuichiro Ando1 , Teruya Shinjo1 , Masashi Shiraishi1

Exploiting 2D materials for spintronic applications can potentially realize next-generation devices featuring low-power consumption and quantum operation capability. The magnetic exchange field (MEF) induced by an adjacent magnetic…

We study electronic transport in graphene/ferromagnetic insulator hybrid devices. The system comprises an armchair graphene nanoribbon with a lens-shaped EuO ferromagnetic insulator layer deposited on top of it. When the device supports a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Yuriko Baba , Marta Saiz-Bretín

The pseudospin quantum degree of freedom is one of the most remarkable properties of graphene that distinguishes it from ordinary two-dimensional metals and semiconductors. Pseudospin quantum interference leads to weak antilocalization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Giriraj Jnawali , Mengchen Huang , Jen-Feng Hsu , Hyungwoo Lee , Jung-Woo Lee , Patrick Irvin , Chang-Beom Eom , Brian D'Urso , Jeremy Levy

Injection, transmission, and detection of spins in a conducting channel are the basic ingredients of spintronic devices. Long spin lifetimes during transit are an important ingredient in realizing this technology. An attractive platform for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Evan Sosenko , Huazhou Wei , Vivek Aji

Injection of spins into semiconductors is essential for the integration of the spin functionality into conventional electronics. Insulating layers are often inserted between ferromagnetic metals and semiconductors for obtaining an efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 Oihana Txoperena , Yang Song , Lan Qing , Marco Gobbi , Luis E. Hueso , Hanan Dery , Fèlix Casanova

The nonlinear responses of different materials provide useful mechanisms for optical switching, low noise amplification, and harmonic frequency generation. However, the nonlinear processes usually have an extremely weak nature and require…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-24 Boyuan Jin , Tianjing Guo , Christos Argyropoulos

Two channels of the sd exchange interaction are considered in magnetic junctions. The first channel describes the interaction of transversal spins with the lattice magnetization. The second one describes the interaction of longitudinal…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-22 S. G. Chigarev , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

Long-distance spin transport through anti-ferromagnetic insulators (AFMIs) is a long-standing goal of spintronics research. Unlike conventional spintronics systems, monolayer graphene in quantum Hall regime (QH) offers an unprecedented…

The electrical generation of spin signals is of central interest for spintronics, where graphene stands as a relevant platform as its spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is tuned by proximity effects. Here, we propose an enhancement of spin-charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Joaquín Medina Dueñas , Santiago Giménez de Castro , Jose H. Garcia , Stephan Roche

The generation of highly-confined plasmons through far-field optical illumination appears to be impractical for technological applications due to their large energy-momentum mismatch with external light. Electrical generation of plasmons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Sandra de Vega , F. Javier García de Abajo

We fabricated a non-local spin valve device with Co-MgO injector/detector tunnel contacts on a graphene spin channel. In this device, the spin polarization of the injector contact can be tuned by both the injector current bias and the gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Sebastian Ringer , Matthias Rosenauer , Tobias Völkl , Maximilian Kadur , Franz Hopperdietzel , Dieter Weiss , Jonathan Eroms

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

In our previous work, we synthesized a metal/2D material heterointerface consisting of $L1_0$-ordered iron-palladium (FePd) and graphene (Gr) called FePd(001)/Gr. This system has been explored by both experimental measurements and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-02 Hayato Adachi , Ryuusuke Endo , Hikari Shinya , Hiroshi Naganuma , Tomoya Ono , Mitsuharu Uemoto

Spin transistors based on a semiconducting channel attached to ferromagnetic electrodes suffer from fast spin decay and extremely low spin injection/detection efficiencies. Here, we propose an alternative all-in-one spin device whose…

Graphene has emerged as the foremost material for future two-dimensional spintronics due to its tuneable electronic properties. In graphene, spin information can be transported over long distances and, in principle, be manipulated by using…

Graphene has exceptional optical, mechanical and electrical properties, making it an emerging material for novel optoelectronics, photonics and for flexible transparent electrode applications. However, the relatively high sheet resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-06 Guang-Xin Ni , Yi Zheng , Sukang Bae , Chin Yaw Tan , Orhan Kahya , Jing Wu , Byung Hee Hong , Kui Yao , Barbaros Özyilmaz

We have fabricated oxide based spin filter junctions in which we demonstrate that magnetic anisotropy can be used to tune the transport behavior of spin filter junctions. Until recently, spin filters have been largely comprised of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 R. V. Chopdekar , B. B. Nelson-Cheeseman , M. Liberati , E. Arenholz , Y. Suzuki

We report a novel fabrication method of graphene Al2O3 gate insulators based on sputtering. Electrical performance of dual-gated mono- and bilayer exfoliated graphene devices is presented. Sputtered Al2O3 layers possess comparable quality…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Friedemann , M. Woszczyna , A. Müller , S. Wundrack , T. Dziomba , Th. Weimann , Th. Seyller , F. Ahlers

Monolayer graphene with an energy gap presents a pseudospin symmetry broken ferromagnet with a perpendicular pseudomagnetization whose direction is switched by altering the type of doping between n and p. We demonstrate an electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Leyla Majidi , Malek Zareyan