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 …

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 …

A review on the applications of graphene in mechanical transduction

AF Carvalho, B Kulyk, AJS Fernandes… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A pressing need to develop low‐cost, environmentally friendly, and sensitive sensors has
arisen with the advent of the always‐connected paradigm of the internet‐of‐things (IoT). In …

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 …

Electrical and thermal generation of spin currents by magnetic bilayer graphene

TS Ghiasi, AA Kaverzin, AH Dismukes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Ultracompact spintronic devices greatly benefit from the implementation of two-dimensional
materials that provide large spin polarization of charge current together with long-distance …

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 …

Recent advances in graphene-like 2D materials for spintronics applications

I Choudhuri, P Bhauriyal, B Pathak - Chemistry of Materials, 2019 - ACS Publications
For the progressive development of spintronics as the next generation information
technology source, it is essential to look for materials with high abundance, long spin …