Nature Communications (Feb 2017)
Large positive in-plane magnetoresistance induced by localized states at nanodomain boundaries in graphene
- Han-Chun Wu,
- Alexander N. Chaika,
- Ming-Chien Hsu,
- Tsung-Wei Huang,
- Mourad Abid,
- Mohamed Abid,
- Victor Yu Aristov,
- Olga V. Molodtsova,
- Sergey V. Babenkov,
- Yuran Niu,
- Barry E. Murphy,
- Sergey A. Krasnikov,
- Olaf Lübben,
- Huajun Liu,
- Byong Sun Chun,
- Yahya T. Janabi,
- Sergei N. Molotkov,
- Igor V. Shvets,
- Alexander I. Lichtenstein,
- Mikhail I. Katsnelson,
- Ching-Ray Chang
Affiliations
- Han-Chun Wu
- School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology
- Alexander N. Chaika
- School of Physics, Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, Trinity College Dublin
- Ming-Chien Hsu
- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University
- Tsung-Wei Huang
- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University
- Mourad Abid
- School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology
- Mohamed Abid
- School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology
- Victor Yu Aristov
- Institute of Solid State Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences
- Olga V. Molodtsova
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
- Sergey V. Babenkov
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
- Yuran Niu
- MAX-lab, Lund University
- Barry E. Murphy
- School of Physics, Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, Trinity College Dublin
- Sergey A. Krasnikov
- School of Physics, Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, Trinity College Dublin
- Olaf Lübben
- School of Physics, Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, Trinity College Dublin
- Huajun Liu
- Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Byong Sun Chun
- Division of Industrial Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
- Yahya T. Janabi
- Saudi Aramco Materials Performance Unit TSD, Research and Development Center
- Sergei N. Molotkov
- Institute of Solid State Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences
- Igor V. Shvets
- School of Physics, Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, Trinity College Dublin
- Alexander I. Lichtenstein
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg
- Mikhail I. Katsnelson
- Department of Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics, Ural Federal University
- Ching-Ray Chang
- Department of Physics, National Taiwan University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14453
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Owing to long spin lifetime and diffusion length, graphene holds promise for spintronics, yet it does not possess intrinsic magnetic properties. Here, the authors observe experimentally a large, positive magnetoresistance at graphene nanodomain boundaries.