Spin polarised quantised transport via one-dimensional nanowire-graphene contacts

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Main Authors: Burrow, Daniel, Toscano-Figueroa, Jesus C., Guarochico-Moreira, Victor H., Omari, Khalid, Grigorieva, Irina V., Thomson, Thomas, Vera-Marun, Ivan J.
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author Burrow, Daniel
Toscano-Figueroa, Jesus C.
Guarochico-Moreira, Victor H.
Omari, Khalid
Grigorieva, Irina V.
Thomson, Thomas
Vera-Marun, Ivan J.
author_facet Burrow, Daniel
Toscano-Figueroa, Jesus C.
Guarochico-Moreira, Victor H.
Omari, Khalid
Grigorieva, Irina V.
Thomson, Thomas
Vera-Marun, Ivan J.
contents Graphene spintronics offers a promising route to achieve low power 2D electronics for next generation classical and quantum computation. As device length scales are reduced to the limit of the electron mean free path, the transport mechanism crosses over to the ballistic regime. However, ballistic transport has yet to be shown in a graphene spintronic device, a necessary step towards realising ballistic spintronics. Here, we report ballistic injection of spin polarised carriers via one-dimensional contacts between magnetic nanowires and a high mobility graphene channel. The nanowire-graphene interface defines an effective constriction that confines charge carriers over a length scale smaller than that of their mean free path. This is evidenced by the observation of quantised conductance through the contacts with no applied magnetic field and a transition into the quantum Hall regime with increasing field strength. These effects occur in the absence of any constriction in the graphene itself and occur across several devices with transmission probability in the range T = 0.08 - 0.30.
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spellingShingle Spin polarised quantised transport via one-dimensional nanowire-graphene contacts
Burrow, Daniel
Toscano-Figueroa, Jesus C.
Guarochico-Moreira, Victor H.
Omari, Khalid
Grigorieva, Irina V.
Thomson, Thomas
Vera-Marun, Ivan J.
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Graphene spintronics offers a promising route to achieve low power 2D electronics for next generation classical and quantum computation. As device length scales are reduced to the limit of the electron mean free path, the transport mechanism crosses over to the ballistic regime. However, ballistic transport has yet to be shown in a graphene spintronic device, a necessary step towards realising ballistic spintronics. Here, we report ballistic injection of spin polarised carriers via one-dimensional contacts between magnetic nanowires and a high mobility graphene channel. The nanowire-graphene interface defines an effective constriction that confines charge carriers over a length scale smaller than that of their mean free path. This is evidenced by the observation of quantised conductance through the contacts with no applied magnetic field and a transition into the quantum Hall regime with increasing field strength. These effects occur in the absence of any constriction in the graphene itself and occur across several devices with transmission probability in the range T = 0.08 - 0.30.
title Spin polarised quantised transport via one-dimensional nanowire-graphene contacts
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06160