Giant spin Hall effect in graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Balakrishnan, Jayakumar ^a,e   Koon, Gavin Kok Wai ^a   Avsar, Ahmet ^a   Ho, Yuda ^a   Lee, Jong Hak ^a   Jaiswal, Manu ^a,f   Baeck, Seung Jae ^b   Ahn, Jong Hyun ^b   Ferreira, Aires ^a,c   Cazalilla, Miguel A ^a,d   Neto, Antonio H Castro ^a   Özyilmaz, Barbaros ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PATNA   (India)

^f INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; GOLD; GRAPHENE; METAL OXIDE; SILVER;

CARBON; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; METAL;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; GIANT SPIN HALL EFFECT; MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SYNTHESIS; TECHNOLOGY; VAPOR;

EID: 84907377733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5748     Document Type: Article

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