Spin Currents in Rough Graphene Nanoribbons: Universal Fluctuations and Spin Injection
- 2 May 2008
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 100 (17), 177207
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.100.177207
Abstract
We investigate spin conductance in zigzag graphene nanoribbons and propose a spin injection mechanism based only on graphitic nanostructures. We find that nanoribbons with atomically straight, symmetric edges show zero spin conductance but nonzero spin Hall conductance. Only nanoribbons with asymmetrically shaped edges give rise to a finite spin conductance and can be used for spin injection into graphene. Furthermore, nanoribbons with rough edges exhibit mesoscopic spin conductance fluctuations with a universal value of .
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