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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14453
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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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.