Giant tunable spin Hall angle in sputtered Bi2Se3 controlled by an electric field

Qi Lu; Ping Li; Zhixin Guo; Guohua Dong; Bin Peng; Xi Zha; Tai Min; Ziyao Zhou; Ming Liu

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29281-w

Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Giant tunable spin Hall angle in sputtered Bi2Se3 controlled by an electric field

Qi Lu,
Ping Li,
Zhixin Guo,
Guohua Dong,
Bin Peng,
Xi Zha,
Tai Min,
Ziyao Zhou,
Ming Liu

Affiliations

Qi Lu: Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education & International Center for Dielectric Research, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Ping Li: Center for Spintronics and Quantum System, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Zhixin Guo: Center for Spintronics and Quantum System, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Guohua Dong: Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education & International Center for Dielectric Research, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Bin Peng: Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education & International Center for Dielectric Research, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Xi Zha: Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education & International Center for Dielectric Research, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Tai Min: Center for Spintronics and Quantum System, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Ziyao Zhou: Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education & International Center for Dielectric Research, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Ming Liu: Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education & International Center for Dielectric Research, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29281-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Controlling the spin Hall angle is significant to tunable and energy-efficient spintronic devices. Here, the authors demonstrate that the spin Hall angle in Bi2Se3 can be tuned and even enhanced about 600% reversibly by the electric field.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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