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Van der Waals magnets have emerged as a fertile ground for the exploration of highly tunable spin physics and spin-related technology. Two-dimensional (2D) magnons in van der Waals magnets are collective excitation of spins under strong…

Graphene is a promising substrate for future spintronics devices owing to its remarkable electronic mobility and low spin-orbit coupling. Hanle precession in spin valve devices is commonly used to evaluate the spin diffusion and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Emile Fourneau , Alejandro V. Silhanek , Ngoc D. Nguyen

We propose a spin valve that is based on van der Waals antiferromagnetism and fully electrically controlled. The device is composed of two antiferromagnetic terminals that allow for vertical bias control and a linked central scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Xue-Chao Zhai , Ziming , Xu , Qirui Cui , Yingmei Zhu , Hongxin Yang , Yaroslav M. Blanter

In this letter, we report on successful electrical spin injection and detection in \textit{n}-type germanium-on-insulator (GOI) using a Co/Py/Al$_{2}$O$_{3}$ spin injector and 3-terminal non-local measurements. We observe an enhanced spin…

Boron vacancies in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are among the most extensively studied optically active spin defects in van der Waals crystals, due to their promising potential to develop two-dimensional (2D) quantum sensors. In this…

Spin transistors (whose on-off operation is achieved by electric-field-controlled spin orientation 1), if realized, can revolutionize modern electronics through the implementation of a faster and a more energy-efficient performance as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-16 Shengwei Jiang , Lizhong Li , Zefang Wang , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

Light properties in the mid-infrared can be controlled at a deep subwavelength scale using hyperbolic phonons-polaritons (HPPs) of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). While propagating as waveguided modes HPPs can concentrate the electric field…

We present a graphene-based memory platform built on dual-gated field-effect transistors (GFETs). By integrating a lithographically defined metal patch directly atop the hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)-graphene channel, the device functions…

Van der Waals heterostructures formed by stacking different atomically thin layered materials have emerged as the sought-after device platform for electronic and optoelectronic applications. Determining the spatial extent of all the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Mrityunjay Pandey , Radhika Soni , Avi Mathur , Srinivasan Raghavan , U. Chandni

Magnetic van der Waals heterostructures provide a unique platform to study magnetism and spintronics device concepts in the two-dimensional limit. Here, we report studies of exchange bias from the van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr acting…

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are receiving great attentions due to their intriguing properties and potentials in many research fields. The flow of charge carriers in vdW heterostructures can be efficiently rectified by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-06 Yang Tan , Xiaobiao Liu , Zhiliang He , Yanran Liu , Mingwen Zhao , Han Zhang , Feng Chen

Graphitic nanostructures, e.g. carbon nanotubes (CNT) and graphene, have been proposed as ideal materials for spin conduction[1-7]; they have long electronic mean free paths[8] and small spin-orbit coupling[9], hence are expected to have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-05 Sungjae Cho , Yung-Fu Chen , Michael S. Fuhrer

A proposal to detect the purported canted antiferromagnet order for the $\nu=0$ quantum Hall state of graphene based on a two-terminal spin transport setup is theoretically discussed. In the presence of a magnetic field normal to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 So Takei , Amir Yacoby , Bertrand I. Halperin , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

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

Magnetic solitons such as skyrmions and bimerons show great promise for both fundamental research and spintronic applications. Stabilizing and controlling topological spin textures in atomically thin van der Waals (vdW) materials has gained…

Quantum enhanced sensing exploits the coherent dynamics of two-level systems (TLSs) to achieve exceptional sensitivities and measurement precision that surpass classical detection limits. While platforms such as nitrogen vacancy centers in…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-04 XiaoJie Wang , YangYi Chen , Hong-Hua Fang

The integration of the spin degree of freedom in charge-based electronic devices has revolutionised both sensing and memory capability in microelectronics. Further development in spintronic devices requires electrical manipulation of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Wenjing Yan , Oihana Txoperena , Roger Llopis , Hanan Dery , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova

Unique electronic spin textures in topological states of matter are promising for emerging spin-orbit driven memory and logic technologies. However, there are several challenges related to the enhancement of their performance, electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Dmitrii Khokhriakov , Anamul Md. Hoque , Bogdan Karpiak , Saroj P. Dash

One of the most promising building blocks for the development of spin qubits, single-photon sources, and quantum sensors at room temperature, as well as 2D ultraviolet light-emitting diodes, are defect colour centres in 2D hexagonal boron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 M. K. Prasad , V. Babenko , A. W. Tadbier , S. Hofmann , J. P. Goss , J. D. Mar

Bilayer graphene field-effect transistors (BLG-FETs), unlike conventional semiconductors, are greatly sensitive to potential fluctuations due to the charged impurities in high-k gate stacks since the potential difference between two layers…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Teerayut Uwanno , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Kosuke Nagashio