Search results: spintronics

Tuning graphene adsorption continuously

Tuning graphene adsorption continuously

Condensed matterMaterialsNanotechnologyPhysics

By DIPC

Since the discovery that graphene, the two dimensional carbon allotrope, can be isolated and incorporated into electronic devices intense research efforts have been triggered. Driving forces behind the experimental and theoretical studies of graphene are, e.g., the exceptional electronic properties, in particular the high electron mobilities, the long spin coherence lengths and the possibility to […]

How to study magnetic Weyl fermions experimentally

How to study magnetic Weyl fermions experimentally

ChemistryCondensed matterQuantum physicsTheoretical physics

By DIPC

Imagine there exist a material in which an electron could be split into two quasiparticles. These two quasiparticles both would carry electric charge, move in opposite directions but could not move backwards. Furthermore these quasiparticles would be massless. And we can give them a fancy name, Weyl fermions. This seems to be at odds with […]

Manipulating the topological surface states with molecular adsorbates

Manipulating the topological surface states with molecular adsorbates

Condensed matterMaterials

By DIPC

A topological insulator is a material in which there is order associated to topology, i.e., the surface can conduct electricity but the bulk of the material is an insulator. In these last years topological insulators have received the attention of a large area of the scientific community thanks to their exotic properties. They are promising […]

An ideal candidate to investigate nanoscale ferromagnets and exotic interfaces

An ideal candidate to investigate nanoscale ferromagnets and exotic interfaces

ChemistryCondensed matterPhysicsQuantum physics

By DIPC

In order to study new solid state magnetic properties appropiate new laboratory models are needed. In particular, there is a necessity for a substrate to investigate new forms of magnetic coupling with nanoscale ferromagnets and the exotic physics at the interface with semiconductor or superconductor materials. Now a team of researchers from DIPC and some […]

Impurities and spin Hall effects in graphene

Impurities and spin Hall effects in graphene

Condensed matterMaterialsPhysicsQuantum physics

By DIPC

The interactions between moving charges and magnetic fields can be quite complicated; more if we consider the quantum effects. One example is the collection of Hall effects. There are analogues of these effects for spin and the detection of the most sophisticated one in graphene, where, at least, it should not be strong, is something […]

Heat creates spin

Heat creates spin

Computer scienceCondensed matterMaterialsPhysicsQuantum physics

By DIPC

When quantum computing comes, it very likely will rely for the fast storage and processing of information on spintronics. Spintronics (from spin transport electronics) is a branch of technology that specifically makes use of quantum-mechanical spin, and especially of the transport of that spin, in electronic devices. Spin is the part of the total angular […]

How you grow graphene on d-metals key to get spin-polarized electrons

How you grow graphene on d-metals key to get spin-polarized electrons

Condensed matterMaterialsPhysics

By DIPC

Graphene is a material with outstanding electronic characteristics. Many of them arise from the cone-like dispersion of charge carriers near the Fermi level (at which the occupation probability of energy levels is 0.5), where electrons behave as relativistic Dirac fermions, i.e., as if they had no mass. This excellent video from toutestquantique.fr summarizes them very […]