Significant Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction at graphene–ferromagnet interfaces due to the Rashba effect
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Grenoble INP, INAC-SPINTEC, Grenoble (France); Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau; Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo (China)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear, CDTN, Belo Horizonte (Brazil); Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, Grenoble INP, INAC-SPINTEC, Grenoble (France)
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
- Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear, CDTN, Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Université Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau
We report that the possibility of utilizing the rich spin-dependent properties of graphene has attracted much attention in the pursuit of spintronics advances. The promise of high-speed and low-energy-consumption devices motivates the search for layered structures that stabilize chiral spin textures such as topologically protected skyrmions. Here we demonstrate that chiral spin textures are induced at graphene/ferromagnetic metal interfaces. Graphene is a weak spin-orbit coupling material and is generally not expected to induce a sufficient Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction to affect magnetic chirality. We demonstrate that indeed graphene does induce a type of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction due to the Rashba effect. First-principles calculations and experiments using spin-polarized electron microscopy show that this graphene-induced Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction can have a similar magnitude to that at interfaces with heavy metals. Lastly, this work paves a path towards two-dimensional-material-based spin-orbitronics.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 1530366
- Journal Information:
- Nature Materials, Journal Name: Nature Materials Journal Issue: 7 Vol. 17; ISSN 1476-1122
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature - Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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