Van der Waals heterostructures for spintronics and opto-spintronics

JF Sierra, J Fabian, RK Kawakami, S Roche… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The large variety of 2D materials and their co-integration in van der Waals heterostructures
enable innovative device engineering. In addition, their atomically thin nature promotes the …

Spin‐Orbit Torque in Van der Waals‐Layered Materials and Heterostructures

W Tang, H Liu, Z Li, A Pan, YJ Zeng - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Spin‐orbit torque (SOT) opens an efficient and versatile avenue for the electrical
manipulation of magnetization in spintronic devices. The enhancement of SOT efficiency …

Charge-to-spin conversion in twisted heterostructures

S Lee, DJP De Sousa, YK Kwon, F De Juan, Z Chi… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We investigate the twist-angle dependence of spin-orbit coupling proximity effects and
charge-to-spin conversion (CSC) in graphene/WSe 2 heterostructures from first principles …

Unconventional Charge–Spin Conversion in Weyl‐Semimetal WTe2

B Zhao, B Karpiak, D Khokhriakov… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An outstanding feature of topological quantum materials is their novel spin topology in the
electronic band structures with an expected large charge‐to‐spin conversion efficiency …

Spin–Charge Interconversion in KTaO3 2D Electron Gases

LM Vicente‐Arche, J Bréhin, S Varotto… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Oxide interfaces exhibit a broad range of physical effects stemming from broken inversion
symmetry. In particular, they can display non‐reciprocal phenomena when time reversal …

Gate-tunable spin-galvanic effect in graphene-topological insulator van der Waals heterostructures at room temperature

D Khokhriakov, AM Hoque, B Karpiak… - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

Unconventional Charge-to-Spin Conversion in Graphene/ van der Waals Heterostructures

N Ontoso, CK Safeer, F Herling, J Ingla-Aynés… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Spin-charge interconversion (SCI) is a central phenomenon to the development of spintronic
devices from materials with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC). In the case of materials with …

Canted Persistent Spin Texture and Quantum Spin Hall Effect in

JH Garcia, M Vila, CH Hsu, X Waintal, VM Pereira… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We report an unconventional quantum spin Hall phase in the monolayer WTe 2, which
exhibits hitherto unknown features in other topological materials. The low symmetry of the …

Sublattice ferrimagnetism in quasifreestanding graphene

AG Rybkin, AV Tarasov, AA Rybkina, DY Usachov… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We show that graphene can be magnetized by coupling to a ferromagnetic Co film through a
Au monolayer. The presence of dislocation loops under graphene leads to a ferrimagnetic …

[HTML][HTML] Gate tunability of highly efficient spin-to-charge conversion by spin Hall effect in graphene proximitized with WSe2

F Herling, CK Safeer, J Ingla-Aynés, N Ontoso… - APL Materials, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The proximity effect opens ways to transfer properties from one material into another and is
especially important in two-dimensional (2D) materials. In van der Waals heterostructures …