Periodic Reporting for period 1 - 2DSTOP (Spin transport and spin-orbit phenomena in 2D materials)
Reporting period: 2019-03-01 to 2021-02-28
Spintronics relies on the electrical control of magnetism or vice versa. A well-demonstrated application of spintronics is magnetic data storage which is an integral part of any electronic device, for example, the hard disk drives of our computers. For such applications, materials with efficient spin-to-charge current conversion are needed. The objective of the 2DSTOP project was to study spin transport and spin to charge current conversion in 2D materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides
Through the weekly meetings between the researcher and the supervisor, the progress of the implementation of the project was analysed. Three articles in peer-reviewed journals, especially in high impact journal Nano Letters, were published during the project. Acknowledging the high-quality results, the researcher was invited to present his works at important conferences such as Americal Physical Society March meeting-2020 and IEEE Magnetism and Magnetic Material. Additionally, the results were further disseminated in Joint European Magnetic Society conference-2019 and also via online seminar series.
The graphene-based spin-to-charge conversion device optimized during the project became a formidable platform to study spin-orbit effects in a variety of 2D materials and their heterostructures. Using similar devices, many follow-up works studying spin-orbit effects in 2D materials have been reported in the literature. This way, 2DSTOP provided a high impact on the progress of the 2D spintronics research field