• 文献标题:   Pure valley and spin polarization current in ferromagnetic graphene junction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WU QP, LIU ZF, CHEN AX, XIAO XB, MIAO GX
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0021-8979 EI 1089-7550
  • 通讯作者地址:   East China Jiaotong Univ
  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1063/1.4975821
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

We investigate the band structure and spin-and valley-dependent transport in ferromagnetic graphene double junctions using the transfer matrix method. The ferromagnetic double junctions include a lateral layout of normal/magnetic vector potential/normal/effective exchange field/normal graphene regions. We find that the strain combined with magnetic vector potentials breaks the valley degeneracy, and the strain combined with the effective exchange field breaks the spin degeneracy, so that there exists a spin-and valley-dependent gap in the ferromagnetic graphene double junctions, which allows only one spin species with special valley characteristics to be transported. Thus, this type of junction can achieve simultaneously pure spin-and pure valley-polarized currents and function as a perfect valley filter and a perfect spin filter. The exact nature of the valley filtering and spin filtering can be tuned by the strain, magnetic barrier, and effective exchange field strength. Published by AIP Publishing.