Highly efficient and tunable spin-to-charge conversion through Rashba coupling at oxide interfaces

Nature Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1261-1266

  Lesne, E ^a,e   Fu, Yu ^b   Oyarzun, S ^b,c   Rojas Sanchez J C ^a,f   Vaz, D C ^a   Naganuma, H ^a,d   Sicoli, G ^b   Attane J P ^b   Jamet, M ^b   Jacquet, E ^a   George, J M ^a   Barthelemy A ^a   Jaffres H ^a   Fert, A ^a   Bibes, M ^a   Vila, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY CEDENNA   (Chile)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SPIN WAVES;

GATE DEPENDENCE; INTERACTION COUPLE; INTERCONVERSION MECHANISMS; INTERCONVERSIONS; OXIDE INTERFACES; RASHBA COUPLING; TRANSVERSE SPIN CURRENTS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON SYSTEM (2DES);

SPIN HALL EFFECT;

EID: 84984621916     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4726     Document Type: Article

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