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 …

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 …

Tunable superconductivity in electron-and hole-doped Bernal bilayer graphene

C Li, F Xu, B Li, J Li, G Li, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Abstract Graphene-based, high-quality, two-dimensional electronic systems have emerged
as a highly tunable platform for studying superconductivity,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,–. Specifically …

Néel-type skyrmion in WTe2/Fe3GeTe2 van der Waals heterostructure

Y Wu, S Zhang, J Zhang, W Wang, YL Zhu, J Hu… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
The promise of high-density and low-energy-consumption devices motivates the search for
layered structures that stabilize chiral spin textures such as topologically protected …

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 …

Electrical gate control of spin current in van der Waals heterostructures at room temperature

A Dankert, SP Dash - Nature communications, 2017‏ - nature.com
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) crystals offer a unique platform due to their remarkable and
contrasting spintronic properties, such as weak spin–orbit coupling (SOC) in graphene and …

Strongly anisotropic spin relaxation in graphene–transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures at room temperature

LA Benítez, JF Sierra, W Savero Torres, A Arrighi… - Nature Physics, 2018‏ - nature.com
A large enhancement in the spin–orbit coupling of graphene has been predicted when
interfacing it with semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides. Signatures of such an …

Opto-Valleytronic Spin Injection in Monolayer MoS2/Few-Layer Graphene Hybrid Spin Valves

YK Luo, J Xu, T Zhu, G Wu, EJ McCormick, W Zhan… - Nano …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) materials provide a unique platform for spintronics and valleytronics
due to the ability to combine vastly different functionalities into one vertically stacked …

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; …