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 …

Defect engineering of two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides: applications, challenges, and opportunities

Q Liang, Q Zhang, X Zhao, M Liu, ATS Wee - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Atomic defects, being the most prevalent zero-dimensional topological defects, are
ubiquitous in a wide range of 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). They could be …

Opportunities and challenges for spintronics in the microelectronics industry

B Dieny, IL Prejbeanu, K Garello, P Gambardella… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Spintronic devices exploit the spin, as well as the charge, of electrons and could bring new
capabilities to the microelectronics industry. However, in order for spintronic devices to meet …

2D materials for spintronic devices

EC Ahn - npj 2D Materials and Applications, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract 2D materials are attractive for nanoelectronics due to their ultimate thickness
dimension and unique physical properties. A wide variety of emerging spintronic device …

Two-dimensional spintronics for low-power electronics

X Lin, W Yang, KL Wang, W Zhao - Nature Electronics, 2019 - nature.com
The scaling of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology is
increasingly challenging, but demand for low-power data storage and processing continues …

Colloquium: Spintronics in graphene and other two-dimensional materials

A Avsar, H Ochoa, F Guinea, B Özyilmaz… - Reviews of Modern …, 2020 - APS
After the first unequivocal demonstration of spin transport in graphene [Tombros et al.,
Nature (London) 448, 571–574 (2007)], surprisingly at room temperature, it was quickly …

Superconductivity in metallic twisted bilayer graphene stabilized by WSe2

HS Arora, R Polski, Y Zhang, A Thomson, Y Choi… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1
degrees, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated …

Nonvolatile memories based on graphene and related 2D materials

S Bertolazzi, P Bondavalli, S Roche, T San… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The pervasiveness of information technologies is generating an impressive amount of data,
which need to be accessed very quickly. Nonvolatile memories (NVMs) are making inroads …

Room-Temperature Spin Hall Effect in Graphene/MoS2 van der Waals Heterostructures

CK Safeer, J Ingla-Aynés, F Herling, JH Garcia… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Graphene is an excellent material for long-distance spin transport but allows little spin
manipulation. Transition-metal dichalcogenides imprint their strong spin–orbit coupling into …

Tunable room-temperature spin galvanic and spin Hall effects in van der Waals heterostructures

LA Benitez, W Savero Torres, JF Sierra… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling stands as a powerful tool to interconvert charge and spin currents and to
manipulate the magnetization of magnetic materials through spin-torque phenomena …