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Gated silicene as a tunable source of nearly 100% spin-polarized electrons
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Silicene is a one-atom-thick two-dimensional crystal of silicon with a hexagonal lattice structure that is related to that of graphene but with atomic bonds that are buckled rather than flat. This buckling confers advantages on silicene over graphene, because it should, in principle, generate both a band gap and polarized spin-states that can be controlled with a perpendicular electric field. Here we use first-principles calculations to show that field-gated silicene possesses two gapped Dirac cones exhibiting nearly 100% spin-polarization, situated at the corners of the Brillouin zone. Using this fact, we propose a design for a silicene-based spin-filter that should enable the spin-polarization of an output current to be switched electrically, without switching external magnetic fields. Our quantum transport calculations indicate that the proposed designs will be highly efficient (nearly 100% spin-polarization) and robust against weak disorder and edge imperfections. We also propose a Y-shaped spin/valley separator that produces spin-polarized current at two output terminals with opposite spins. Silicene is a silicon-based analogue of graphene, but with subtle and potentially useful differences. Wei-Feng Tsai and colleagues show that these differences could be exploited to build electrically-gated silicene devices that generate and control spin-polarized currents with near perfect efficiency.
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- Tsai, W.-F., Huang, C.-Y., Chang, T.-R., Lin, H., Jeng, H.-T., & Bansil, A.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2013-02-19
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1500-1500
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- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
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- References
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- 28.12
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