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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

According to the recent studies on sliding/moire ferroelectricity, most 2D van der Waals nonferroelectric monolayers can become ferroelectric via multilayer stacking. In this paper we propose that similar strategy can be used to induce…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-24 Yuxuan Sheng , Junwei Liu , Jia Zhang , Menghao Wu

Antiferromagnetic spintronics have attracted wide attention due to its great potential in constructing ultra-dense and ultra-fast antiferromagnetic memory that suits modern high-performance information technology. The electrical 180o…

Moir\'e superlattices in van der Waals structures can be used to control the electronic properties of the material and lead to emergent correlated and topological phenomena. Its first demonstration in van der Waals magnets exhibited…

Charge transfer plays a key role at the interfaces of heterostructures, which can affect electronic structures and ultimately the physical properties of the materials. However, charge transfer is difficult to manipulate externally once the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-08 Zi-Ao Wang , Weishan Xue , Faguang Yan , Wenkai Zhu , Yi Liu , Xinhui Zhang , Zhongming Wei , Kai Chang , Zhe Yuan , Kaiyou Wang

Odd-parity magnetism has attracted significant interest for its unconventional spin splitting. However, a concrete microscopic route for its realization remains elusive. In this work, we propose van der Waals heterostructures of stripe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-16 Hanbyul Kim , Chan Bin Bark , Seik Pak , Gibaik Sim , Moon Jip Park

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator materials feature topologically protected edge states that can drastically reduce dissipation and are useful for the next-generation electronics. However, the nonvolatile control of topological edge state…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-30 Hua Bai , Xinwei Wang , Weikang Wu , Pimo He , Zhu'an Xu , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu

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

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

Momentum-resolved spin-polarized bands are a key ingredient in many proposed spintronic devices, but their existence often relies on lattice commensurability or strong spin-orbit coupling. By a large-scale DFT calculation (up to 4212…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-13 Zhigang Song , Xiuying Zhang , Julian Klein , Jonathan Curtis , Frances M. Ross , Prineha Narang

The recent discovery of altermagnets, which exhibit spin splitting without net magnetization, opens new directions for spintronics beyond the limits of ferromagnets, antiferromagnets, and spin orbit coupled systems. We investigate spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Pei-Hao Fu , Qianqian Lv , Yong Xu , Jorge Cayao , Jun-Feng Liu , Xiang-Long Yu

We consider current-induced spin-transfer torque on an antiferromagnet in a dual spin-valve setup. It is demonstrated that a net magnetization may be induced in the AFM by partially or completely aligning the sublattice magnetizations via a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jacob Linder

We observe and analyze tunable relaxation of a pure spin current by an antiferromagnet in spin-valves. This is achieved by carefully controlling the angle between a resonantly excited ferromagnetic layer pumping the spin current and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Dmytro M. Polishchuk , Akashdeep Kamra , Taras I. Polek , Arne Brataas , Vladislav Korenivski

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnets present a promising platform for spintronic applications due to their unique structural and electronic properties. The ability to electrostatically control their interlayer magnetic coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 B. Liu , J. S. Feng , H. J. Xiang , Z. Dai , Zhi-Xin Guo

Pristine graphene is potentially an ideal medium to transport spin information. Proximity effects, where a neighbouring material is used to alter the properties of a material in adjacent (or proximitized) regions, can also be used in…

Electrical control of magnetism in a two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor is of great interest for emerging nanoscale low-dissipation spintronic devices. Here, we propose a general approach of tuning magnetic coupling and anisotropy of a van…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-05-05 Chengxi Huang , Jingtong Guan , Qiongyu Li , Fang Wu , Puru Jena , Erjun Kan

Spintronics is an approach to electronics in which the spin of the electrons is exploited to control the electric resistance R of devices. One basic building block is the spin-valve, which is formed if two ferromagnetic electrodes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Sangeeta Sahoo , Takis Kontos , Jürg Furer , Christian Hoffmann , Matthias Gräber , Audrey Cottet , Christian Schönenberger

The control of unconventional magnetism, which displays ferromagnetism-like properties with compensated magnetization, has drawn intense attention for advancing antiferromagnetic spintronics. Here, through symmetry analysis, we propose a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-15 Yongqian Zhu , Mingqiang Gu , Yuntian Liu , Xiaobing Chen , Yuhui Li , Shixuan Du , Qihang Liu

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

Layered van der Waals two-dimensional (2D) magnets are a cornerstone of ultrathin spintronic and magnonic devices. The recent discovery of a 2D multiferroic with strong magnetoelectric coupling in NiI$_2$ offers a promising platform for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-01 Andrey Rybakov , Adolfo O. Fumega , Dorye L. Esteras , Jose L. Lado , José J. Baldoví