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 …

Magnetism, symmetry and spin transport in van der Waals layered systems

H Kurebayashi, JH Garcia, S Khan, J Sinova… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The discovery of an ever-increasing family of atomic layered magnetic materials, together
with the already established vast catalogue of strong spin–orbit coupling and topological …

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 …

Proximitized materials

I Žutić, A Matos-Abiague, B Scharf, H Dery… - Materials Today, 2019 - Elsevier
Advances in scaling down heterostructures and having an improved interface quality
together with atomically thin two-dimensional materials suggest a novel approach to …

Charge-to-spin conversion by the Rashba–Edelstein effect in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures up to room temperature

TS Ghiasi, AA Kaverzin, PJ Blah, BJ Van Wees - Nano letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
The proximity of a transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) to graphene imprints a rich spin
texture in graphene and complements its high-quality charge/spin transport by inducing spin …

Spin–orbit-driven band inversion in bilayer graphene by the van der Waals proximity effect

JO Island, X Cui, C Lewandowski, JY Khoo… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling (SOC) is the key to realizing time-reversal-invariant topological phases
of matter,. SOC was predicted by Kane and Mele to stabilize a quantum spin Hall insulator; …

Twist-angle dependent proximity induced spin-orbit coupling in graphene/transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures

T Naimer, K Zollner, M Gmitra, J Fabian - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We investigate the proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling in heterostructures of twisted
graphene and monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) MoS 2, WS 2, MoSe …

Spin transport in graphene/transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures

JH Garcia, M Vila, AW Cummings… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Since its discovery, graphene has been a promising material for spintronics: its low spin–
orbit coupling, negligible hyperfine interaction, and high electron mobility are obvious …

Twist-angle dependence of the proximity spin-orbit coupling in graphene on transition-metal dichalcogenides

Y Li, M Koshino - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We theoretically study the proximity spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in graphene on a transition-
metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) monolayer stacked with arbitrary twist angles. We find that …

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 …