Long Spin Diffusion Length in Few-Layer Graphene Flakes

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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Physical Review Letters, Volume 117, issue 14, pp. 1-6

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We report a spin valve with a few-layer graphene flake bridging highly spin-polarized La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 electrodes, whose surfaces are kept clean during lithographic definition. Sharp magnetic switching is verified using photoemission electron microscopy with x-ray magnetic circular dichroism contrast. A naturally occurring high interfacial resistance ∼12 MΩ facilitates spin injection, and a large resistive switching (0.8 MΩ at 10 K) implies a 70-130 μm spin diffusion length that exceeds previous values obtained with sharp-switching electrodes.

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Yan, W, Phillips, L C, Barbone, M, Hämäläinen, S J, Lombardo, A, Ghidini, M, Moya, X, MacCherozzi, F, Van Dijken, S, Dhesi, S S, Ferrari, A C & Mathur, N D 2016, 'Long Spin Diffusion Length in Few-Layer Graphene Flakes', Physical Review Letters, vol. 117, no. 14, 147201, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.147201