Direkt zum Inhalt

Zollner, Klaus ; Petrovic, Marko D. ; Dolui, Kapildeb ; Plechac, Petr ; Nikolic, Branislav K. ; Fabian, Jaroslav

Scattering-induced and highly tunable by gate damping-like spin-orbit torque in graphene doubly proximitized by two-dimensional magnet Cr2Ge2Te6 and monolayer WS2

Zollner, Klaus , Petrovic, Marko D., Dolui, Kapildeb, Plechac, Petr, Nikolic, Branislav K. and Fabian, Jaroslav (2020) Scattering-induced and highly tunable by gate damping-like spin-orbit torque in graphene doubly proximitized by two-dimensional magnet Cr2Ge2Te6 and monolayer WS2. Physical Review Research 2, 043057.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 24 Jan 2020 09:07
Article
DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.41372


Abstract

Using first-principles combined with quantum transport calculations, we predict that graphene sandwiched between insulating monolayers of Cr₂Ge₂Te₆ ferromagnet and WS₂ transition-metal dichalcogenide will exhibit spin-orbit torque (SOT) when unpolarized charge current is injected parallel to interfaces of Cr₂Ge₂Te₆/graphene/WS₂ van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure. Although graphene by itself is ...

Using first-principles combined with quantum transport calculations, we predict that graphene sandwiched between insulating monolayers of Cr₂Ge₂Te₆ ferromagnet and WS₂ transition-metal dichalcogenide will exhibit spin-orbit torque (SOT) when unpolarized charge current is injected parallel to interfaces of Cr₂Ge₂Te₆/graphene/WS₂ van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure. Although graphene by itself is nonmagnetic and it has negligible spin-orbit coupling (SOC), both of which are required for the SOT phenomenon, Cr₂Ge₂Te₆ induces proximity magnetism into graphene while WS₂ concurrently imprints valley-Zeeman and Rashba SOCs in it. Unlike SOT on conventional metallic ferromagnets brought into contact with normal materials supplying strong SOC, the predicted SOT on such doubly proximitized graphene can be tuned by up to two orders of magnitude via combined top and back electrostatic gates. The vdW heterostructure also reveals how damping-like component of the SOT vector can arise purely from interfaces and, therefore, even in the absence of any spin Hall current from the bulk of a material with strong SOC. The SOT-driven dynamics of proximity magnetization moves it from out-of-plane to in-plane direction which opens a gap in graphene and leads to zero off current and diverging on/off ratio in such SOT field-effect transistor.



Involved Institutions


Details

Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitlePhysical Review Research
Volume:2
Page Range:043057
DateOctober 2020
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Jaroslav Fabian
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgPartially
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-413721
Item ID41372

Export bibliographical data

Owner only: item control page

nach oben