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We report a comprehensive study of the maximization of the spin Hall ratio ({\theta}SH) in Pt thin films by the insertion of sub-monolayer layers of Ti to decrease carrier lifetime while minimizing the concurrent reduction in the spin Hall…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-13 Lijun Zhu , R. A. Buhrman

Co$_{3}$Sn$_{2}$S$_{2}$ (CSS) is one of the shandite compounds and becomes a magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate below the ferromagnetic phase transition temperature ($\textit{T}_\textrm{C}$). In this paper, we investigate the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Takeshi Seki , Yong-Chang Lau , Junya Ikeda , Kohei Fujiwara , Akihiro Ozawa , Satoshi Iihama , Kentaro Nomura , Atsushi Tsukazaki

High-entropy alloys (HEAs) exhibit various physical properties, such as high microhardness for structured materials and high efficiency for catalysis. These features are recognized as a cocktail effect of five or more elements that…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-29 Takahide Kubota , Kazuya Z. Suzuki , Yoshiyuki Hirayama , Shigeki Takahashi , Koki Takanashi

Electronic devices made from two-dimensional materials (2DMs) significantly outperform their silicon counterparts; however, silicon CMOS technology remains commercially predominant as it offers the capability to operate dense arrays of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-01 Vasant Iyer , Nishal Shah , A. T. Charlie Johnson , David A. Issadore , Firooz Aflatouni

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge modes of opposite chiralities. To date, experimental studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kaifei Kang , Bowen Shen , Yichen Qiu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

We develop a theory of extrinsic spin currents in semiconductors, resulting from spin-orbit coupling at charged scatterers, which leads to skew scattering and side jump contributions to the spin Hall conductance. Applying the theory to bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Andreas Engel , Bertrand I. Halperin , Emmanuel I. Rashba

Efficient and versatile spin-to-charge current conversion is crucial for the development of spintronic applications, which strongly rely on the ability to electrically generate and detect spin currents. In this context, the spin Hall effect…

Spintronics has emerged as a promising field for next-generation devices, offering functionalities beyond complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS). A critical challenge in spintronics is to develop systems that can efficiently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Zhendong Chi , Eoin Dolan , Haozhe Yang , Beatriz Martín-García , Marco Gobbi , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

The strong spin$-$orbit coupling (SOC) and numerous crystal phases in few$-$layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) MX$_2$ (M$=$W, Mo, and X$=$Te, Se, S) has led to a variety of novel physics, such as Ising superconductivity and…

We propose an efficient spin filter including an antidot fabricated on semiconductor heterostructures with strong spin-orbit interaction. The antidot creates a tunable potential on two-dimensional electron gas in the heterostructures, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-17 Tomohiro Yokoyama , Mikio Eto

The spin Hall effect in heavy-metal thin films is routinely employed to convert charge currents into transverse spin currents and can be used to exert torque on adjacent ferromagnets. Conversely, the inverse spin Hall effect is frequently…

The intrinsic spin Hall conductance shows rich sign changes by applying a perpendicular magnetic field in a two-dimensional hole gas. Especially, a notable sign changes can be achieved by adjusting the characteristic length of the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tianxing Ma , Qin Liu

The intrinsic spin Hall effect in semiconductors has developed to a remarkably lively and rapidly growing branch of research in the field of semiconductor spintronics. In this article we give a pedagogical overview on both theoretical and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 John Schliemann

Based on first-principles calculations, we have found a family of 2D transition-metal (TM) chalcogenides MX5 (M = Zr, Hf and X = S, Se and Te) can host quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect. The molecular dynamics simulation indicate that they are…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-15 Xing Wang , Wenhui Wan , Yanfeng Ge , Kai-Cheng Zhang , Yong Liu

We show that the extrinsic spin Hall effect can be engineered in monolayer graphene by decoration with small doses of adatoms, molecules, or nanoparticles originating local spin-orbit perturbations. The analysis of the single impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 A. Ferreira , T. G. Rappoport , M. A. Cazalilla , A. H. Castro Neto

We report on a theoretical study of the spin Hall Effect (SHE) and weak antilocal-ization (WAL) in graphene/transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures, computed through efficient real-space quantum transport methods, and using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-08 Jose H. Garcia , Aron W. Cummings , Stephan Roche

The spin Hall effect of a Dirac Hamiltonian system is studied using semiclassical analyses and the Kubo formula. In this system, the spin Hall conductivity is dependent on the definition of spin current. All components of the spin Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Zhendong Chi , Guanxiong Qu , Yong-Chang Lau , Masashi Kawaguchi , Junji Fujimoto , Koki Takanashi , Masao Ogata , Masamitsu Hayashi

The current-induced spin-orbit torque-based devices for magnetization switching are commonly relied on the 4d and 5d heavy metals owing to their strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) to produce large spin current via spin Hall effect (SHE). Here…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-15 Gaurav K. Shukla , Prabhat Kumar , Shinji Isogami

We present a unified theory of charge carrier transport in 2D Dirac systems with broken mirror inversion and time-reversal symmetries (e.g., as realized in ferromagnetic graphene). We find that the entanglement between spin and pseudospin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-21 Manuel Offidani , Aires Ferreira

We start closing a gap in the comparison of experimental and theoretical data associated with the spin Hall effect. Based on a first-principles characterization of electronic structure and a semiclassical description of electron transport,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Albert Hönemann , Christian Herschbach , Dmitry V. Fedorov , Martin Gradhand , Ingrid Mertig