• 文献标题:   Gate control of lattice-pseudospin currents in graphene on SW2: Effect of sublattice symmetry breaking and spin-orbit interaction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   JATIYANON K, SOODCHOMSHOM B
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, spinorbit interaction, tungsten disulfide, pseudospintronic
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICA ELOWDIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS NANOSTRUCTURES
  • ISSN:   1386-9477 EI 1873-1759
  • 通讯作者地址:   Kasetsart Univ
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.physe.2016.01.031
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in graphene grown on tungsten disulfide (SW2) has been recently observed, leading to energy gap opening by SOL Energy gap in graphene may also be induced by sub lattice symmetry breaking (SSB) where energy level in A-sublattice is not equal to that in B-sublattice. SSB-gap may be produced by growing graphene on hexagonal boron nitride or silicon carbide. In this work, we investigate transport property in a SOI/SSB/SOI gapped graphene junction, focusing the effect of interplay of SOI and SSB. We find that, lattice-pseudospin polarization (L-PSP) can be controlled perfectly from + 100% to 100% by gate voltage. This is due to the fact that in graphene grown on SW2, the carriers carry lattice-pseudospin degree of freedom "up and down". The SSB-gapped graphene exhibits pseudo-ferromagnetism to play the role of lattice-pseudospin filtering barrier. It is also found that the SOI and SSB-gaps in graphene may be measured by characteristic of L-PSP in the junction. The proposed controllable-lattice-pseudospin currents may be applicable for graphene-based pseudospintronics. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.