On Thursday 15th 2023, we have the pleasure to welcome in SPINTEC Juan F. Sierra CSIC tenured scientist from ICN2 and BIST Barcelona. He will give us a seminar at 11:00 entitled :
Spintronics with two-dimensional materials
Place : IRIG/SPINTEC, auditorium 445 CEA Building 10.05 (access to CEA requires an entry authorization. Request it before February 03th at admin.spintec@cea.fr)
videoConference : https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/97561222538?pwd=UktLNzE2eWFmUUpkUEhLalcxMy9nQT09
meeting ID: 975 6122 2538
password: spintec24
Abstract : The vast collection of two-dimensional materials and their co-integration in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures enable innovative device engineering. Their atomically thin nature promotes the design of artificial quantum and topological materials by proximity-induced effects with physical properties not readily found in their single material forms. Such a flexible design approach is especially compelling for the development of spintronic devices, which usually harness functionalities from thin layers of magnetic and non-magnetic materials and their interfaces. In the first part of the talk I will summarize recent experimental progress toward investigating proximity-induced phenomena in hybrid graphene-transition metal dichalcogenides systems through spin transport dynamics and charge-spin interconversion experiments. In the second part, I will introduce the potential advantages of vdW heterostructures and of TIs for non-volatile spintronics memories. Particularly, I will describe the relevance of preserving the quality of the TI/FM interfaces for the generation of highly efficient spin-orbit torques and will demonstrate magnetization switching in 2D ferromagnet / TI heterostructures.
Affiliation : Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain
