scholarly journals Ubiquitous Spin-Orbit Coupling in a Screw Dislocation with High Spin Coherency

2018 ◽  
Vol 121 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Hu ◽  
Huaqing Huang ◽  
Zhengfei Wang ◽  
W. Jiang ◽  
Xiaojuan Ni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Screw Dislocation ◽  
High Spin ◽  
Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit

scholarly journals Back Cover: Probing Proximity‐Tailored High Spin–Orbit Coupling in 2D Materials (Adv. Quantum Technol. 9/2020)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 2070093
Author(s):  
Krishna Rani Sahoo ◽  
T. Pradeep Chakravarthy ◽  
Rahul Sharma ◽  
Sumit Bawari ◽  
Suman Mundlia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Spin ◽  
2D Materials ◽  
Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Back Cover

Probing Proximity‐Tailored High Spin–Orbit Coupling in 2D Materials

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 2000042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krishna Rani Sahoo ◽  
T. Pradeep Chakravarthy ◽  
Rahul Sharma ◽  
Sumit Bawari ◽  
Suman Mundlia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Spin ◽  
2D Materials ◽  
Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit

Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy on W-based Spin-Orbit Torque CoFeB | MgO MRAM Stacks

2015 ◽  
Vol 1729 ◽  
pp. 73-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Kaidatzis ◽  
Vasileios Psycharis ◽  
José Miguel García-Martín ◽  
Cristina Bran ◽  
Manuel Vázquez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Anisotropy ◽  
Layer Thickness ◽  
High Spin ◽  
Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy ◽  
Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Β Phase

ABSTRACTWe study W | Ta | CoFeB | MgO stacks for spin-orbit torque MRAM applications. A strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy is obtained after annealing for CoFeB layer thickness of 0.9 nm or 1.2 nm and for specific W/Ta ratios, were the Ta layer thickness is between 0.3 nm and 1 nm. Furthermore, the desired high-spin orbit coupling β-phase of W is preserved even after annealing at 350°C. We argue that an efficient B getter, like Ta, is necessary for the coherent crystallization of the CoFeB | MgO interface that allows for the establishment of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.

scholarly journals Observation of chiral surface excitons in a topological insulator Bi2Se3

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (10) ◽  
pp. 4006-4011 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.-H. Kung ◽  
A. P. Goyal ◽  
D. L. Maslov ◽  
X. Wang ◽  
A. Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polarized Light ◽  
Orbit Coupling ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Composite Particles ◽  
Spin Orbit Coupling ◽  
Spin Orbit ◽  
Excitation Energies ◽  
Circularly Polarized Light ◽  
Pl Emission ◽  
Strong Spin

The protected electron states at the boundaries or on the surfaces of topological insulators (TIs) have been the subject of intense theoretical and experimental investigations. Such states are enforced by very strong spin–orbit interaction in solids composed of heavy elements. Here, we study the composite particles—chiral excitons—formed by the Coulomb attraction between electrons and holes residing on the surface of an archetypical 3D TI,Bi2Se3. Photoluminescence (PL) emission arising due to recombination of excitons in conventional semiconductors is usually unpolarized because of scattering by phonons and other degrees of freedom during exciton thermalization. On the contrary, we observe almost perfectly polarization-preserving PL emission from chiral excitons. We demonstrate that the chiral excitons can be optically oriented with circularly polarized light in a broad range of excitation energies, even when the latter deviate from the (apparent) optical band gap by hundreds of millielectronvolts, and that the orientation remains preserved even at room temperature. Based on the dependences of the PL spectra on the energy and polarization of incident photons, we propose that chiral excitons are made from massive holes and massless (Dirac) electrons, both with chiral spin textures enforced by strong spin–orbit coupling. A theoretical model based on this proposal describes quantitatively the experimental observations. The optical orientation of composite particles, the chiral excitons, emerges as a general result of strong spin–orbit coupling in a 2D electron system. Our findings can potentially expand applications of TIs in photonics and optoelectronics.

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