• 文献标题:   Effect of electric field and magnetic field on spin transport in bilayer graphene armchair nanoribbons: A Monte Carlo simulation study
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SALIMATH A, GHOSH B
  • 作者关键词:   bilayer armchair graphene nanoribbon, spin transport, scattering, spin relaxation length, monte carlo method, magnetic field, electric field
  • 出版物名称:   CURRENT APPLIED PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1567-1739 EI 1878-1675
  • 通讯作者地址:   Indian Inst Technol Kanpur
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.cap.2014.08.028
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

In this article we study the effect of external magnetic field and electric field on spin transport in bilayer armchair graphene nanoribbons (GNR) by employing semiclassical Monte Carlo approach. We include D'yakonov-Perel' (DP) relaxation due to structural inversion asymmetry (Rashba spin-orbit coupling) and Elliott-Yafet (EY) relaxation to model spin dephasing. In the model we neglect the effect of local magnetic moments due to adatoms and vacancies. We have considered injection polarization along z-direction perpendicular to the plane of graphene and the magnitude of ensemble averaged spin variation is studied along the x-direction which is the transport direction. To the best of our knowledge there has been no theoretical investigation of the effects of external magnetic field on spin transport in graphene nanoribbons. This theoretical investigation is important in order to identify the factors responsible for experimentally observed spin relaxation length in graphene GNRs. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.