Rashba-like physics in condensed matter

G Bihlmayer, P Noël, DV Vyalikh, EV Chulkov… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling induces a unique form of Zeeman interaction in momentum space in
materials that lack inversion symmetry: the electron's spin is locked on an effective magnetic …

Understanding do** of quantum materials

A Zunger, OI Malyi - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Do** mobile carriers into ordinary semiconductors such as Si, GaAs, and ZnO was the
enabling step in the electronic and optoelectronic revolutions. The recent emergence of a …

Different shapes of spin textures as a journey through the Brillouin zone

C Mera Acosta, L Yuan, GM Dalpian, A Zunger - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Crystallographic point group symmetry (CPGS) such as polar and nonpolar crystal classes
have long been known to classify compounds that have spin-orbit-induced spin splitting …

High-throughput inverse design for 2D ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors

J Chen, K Wu, W Hu, J Yang - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A long-standing goal in spintronics is electric control of spin. Herein, we perform an inverse
design to search for 2D ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors, whose spin texture can be …

Janus transition-metal dichalcogenides heterostructures for highly efficient excitonic solar cells

M Bikerouin, M Balli - Applied Surface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The emergence of two-dimensional semiconductors opens up new avenues for efficient,
ultrathin, and high-quality heterojunction solar cells. Herein, based on first-principles …

Angular dependence of the second-order nonlinear optical response in Janus transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

NA Pike, R Pachter - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2022 - ACS Publications
With advances in the growth of Janus transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers
and potential applications for materials with a permanent dipole moment, we investigate the …

Challenges and opportunities in searching for Rashba-Dresselhaus materials for efficient spin-charge interconversion at room temperature

Z Wang, Z Chen, R Xu, H Zhu, R Sundararaman… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2024 - Elsevier
Spintronic logic devices require efficient spin-charge interconversion: converting charge
current to spin current and spin current to charge current. In spin–orbit materials that are …

Inverse design of compounds that have simultaneously ferroelectric and Rashba cofunctionality

CM Acosta, A Fazzio, GM Dalpian, A Zunger - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Cofunctionality—the coexistence of different (possibly even contraindicated) properties in
the same compound—is an exciting prospect that never fails to deliver interesting surprises …

Electrical manipulation of the spins in phosphorene double quantum dots

T Thakur, FM Peeters, B Szafran - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
We investigate electric dipole spin resonance (EDSR) induced by an oscillating electric field
within a system of double quantum dots formed electrostatically in monolayer phosphorene …

Design of Two-Dimensional Hybrid Perovskites with Giant Spin Splitting and Persistent Spin Textures

R Chakraborty, PC Sercel, X Qin… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Semiconductors with large energetic separation Δ E±of energy sub-bands with distinct spin
expectation values (spin textures) represent a key target to enable control over spin …