Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Variable spin-charge conversion across metal-insulator transition

  • Taqiyyah S. Safi,
  • Pengxiang Zhang,
  • Yabin Fan,
  • Zhongxun Guo,
  • Jiahao Han,
  • Ethan R. Rosenberg,
  • Caroline Ross,
  • Yaraslov Tserkovnyak,
  • Luqiao Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14388-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The interconversion of spin and charge is fundamental to the operation of spintronic devices. Here the authors demonstrate spin-to-charge conversion in the correlated material vanadium dioxide, and show that the efficiency changes dramatically across the metal-insulator transition.