Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Electrical spin injection and detection in molybdenum disulfide multilayer channel

  • Shiheng Liang,
  • Huaiwen Yang,
  • Pierre Renucci,
  • Bingshan Tao,
  • Piotr Laczkowski,
  • Stefan Mc-Murtry,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Xavier Marie,
  • Jean-Marie George,
  • Sébastien Petit-Watelot,
  • Abdelhak Djeffal,
  • Stéphane Mangin,
  • Henri Jaffrès,
  • Yuan Lu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14947
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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MoS2 is a promising two-dimensional candidate for opto-electronic and spintronic applications. Here, the authors report electrical spin injection and detection in a few-layered MoS2 channel, demonstrating that the spin diffusion length is at least 235 nm in MoS2conduction band.