Mirroring and reversible fine-tuning of the transport spin-polarization in PC3 nanoribbons based on an electrical method

Momentum matching induced giant magnetoresistance in two-dimensional magnetic tunnel junctions

“…Starting from this discovery, a new subject called spintronics appeared and the spin degree of freedom of electrons as a carrier of information started to attract the intensive attention of researchers. 3–12 Traditional three dimensional MTJs are composed of an insulator sandwiched between two ferromagnetic leads. 13 When the magnetizations of the two leads are parallel, one spin channel will be in a highly conducting state and the other spin channel will be in a lowly conducting state.…”

The effect of light-irradiated area on the spin dependent photocurrent in zigzag graphene nanoribbon junctions

“…Spintronics, which focuses on using the spin state of electrons to store, carry and read information, has received a great deal of attention in recent years. 1–6 One of the major desirable goals of spintronics is to obtain pure spin current, 7 which is characterized by having the flow of spin angular-momentum without an accompanying charge current in the device. As both spin and charge are degrees of freedom for electrons and each flowing electron carries both charge current and spin current, pure spin currents can only be achieved when the same number of spin-up and spin-down electrons flow in opposite directions.…”