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 …

Theory of chirality induced spin selectivity: Progress and challenges

F Evers, A Aharony, N Bar‐Gill… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A critical overview of the theory of the chirality‐induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, that is,
phenomena in which the chirality of molecular species imparts significant spin selectivity to …

Strain engineering of 2D semiconductors and graphene: from strain fields to band-structure tuning and photonic applications

Z Peng, X Chen, Y Fan, DJ Srolovitz… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and graphene
compose a new family of crystalline materials with atomic thicknesses and exotic …

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 …

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 …

Structure of graphene and its disorders: a review

G Yang, L Li, WB Lee, MC Ng - Science and technology of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Monolayer graphene exhibits extraordinary properties owing to the unique, regular
arrangement of atoms in it. However, graphene is usually modified for specific applications …

Emergent phenomena induced by spin–orbit coupling at surfaces and interfaces

A Soumyanarayanan, N Reyren, A Fert… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling (SOC) describes the relativistic interaction between the spin and
momentum degrees of freedom of electrons, and is central to the rich phenomena observed …

Graphene spintronics

W Han, RK Kawakami, M Gmitra, J Fabian - Nature nanotechnology, 2014 - nature.com
The isolation of graphene has triggered an avalanche of studies into the spin-dependent
physical properties of this material and of graphene-based spintronic devices. Here, we …

Bottom-up growth of monolayer honeycomb SiC

CM Polley, H Fedderwitz, T Balasubramanian… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The long theorized two-dimensional allotrope of SiC has remained elusive amid the
exploration of graphenelike honeycomb structured monolayers. It is anticipated to possess a …

Topological phases in two-dimensional materials: a review

Y Ren, Z Qiao, Q Niu - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Topological phases with insulating bulk and gapless surface or edge modes have attracted
intensive attention because of their fundamental physics implications and potential …