Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Gate-tunable giant nonreciprocal charge transport in noncentrosymmetric oxide interfaces

  • Daeseong Choe,
  • Mi-Jin Jin,
  • Shin-Ik Kim,
  • Hyung-Jin Choi,
  • Junhyeon Jo,
  • Inseon Oh,
  • Jungmin Park,
  • Hosub Jin,
  • Hyun Cheol Koo,
  • Byoung-Chul Min,
  • Seokmin Hong,
  • Hyun-Woo Lee,
  • Seung-Hyub Baek,
  • Jung-Woo Yoo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12466-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Complex oxide heterostructures can host two-dimensional electron systems with better properties than bulk materials. Choe et al. show that the combination of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction and Fermi energy at LAO/STO interfaces gives a larger nonreciprocal response than in bulk polar conductors.