Effect of spin–orbit coupling on spin transport at graphene/transition metal interface

In spite of large spin coherence length in graphene due to small spin–orbit coupling, the created potential barrier and antiferromagnetic coupling at graphene/transition metal (TM) contacts strongly reduce the spin transport behavior in graphene. Keeping these critical issues in mind in the present work, ferromagnetic (Co, Ni) nanosheets are grown on graphene surface to elucidate the nature of interaction at the graphene/ferromagnetic interface to improve the spin transistor characteristics. Temperature dependent magnetoconductance shows unusual behavior exhibiting giant enhancement in magnetoconductance with increasing temperature. A model based on spin–orbit coupling operated at the graphene/TM interface is proposed to explain this anomalous result. We believe that the device performance can be improved remarkably tuning the spin–orbit coupling at the interface of graphene based spin transistor. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

有机发光器件的磁电导效应

制备了基于三(8-羟基喹啉)铝(tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum (III), Alq₃) 的有机发光二极管, 并在不同偏压下测量了器件的室温磁电导效应.在小偏压下, 发光器件展示出明显的负磁电导效应.偏压增加后, 磁电导由负值变为正值, 出现了正负转变的现象. N, N'-二苯基-N, N'-(1-萘基)-1, 1'-联苯-4, 4'-二胺(N, N′-Di(naphthalen-1-yl)-N, N′ diphenyl-benzidine, NPB) 与铜酞菁 (Copper phthalocyanine, CuPc) 单极器件磁电导的测量结果表明, 发光器件在小偏压下的负磁电导效应来源于器件中的CuPc层. 双极电流的磁电导效应可用电子-空穴对模型进行解释, 而单极电流的磁电导效应可归因于器件中的极化子-双极化子转变. 在注入电流的变化过程中, 发光器件的正负磁电导转变是两种机理共同作用的结果.     

基于Alq3的有机发光二极管的磁电导效应

制备了结构为 ITO/CuPc/NPB/Alq₃/LiF/Al 的有机发光二极管,并在300,260,220和180 K 四个温度测量了器件在恒压偏置下注入电流的磁场效应(磁电导效应).在注入电流从双极电流过渡到单极电流的过程中,随电流减小,器件的磁电导呈现先上升后下降的变化趋势.当温度降低,磁电导的值下降.但在任何测量条件下,器件的磁电导始终为正,没有出现如文献报道的磁电导从正到负的变化.实验结果表明,有机发光二极管中正负磁电导现象的产生,并非仅取决于注入电流是单极电流还是双极电流,它还与有机材料、器件结构等密切相关.利用受磁场调控的“电子-空穴对”机理与“双极化子”模型,分别解释了器件双极电流和单极电流的正磁电导效应. 关键词： 有机发光二极管 磁电导 双极化子     

Contributions of impurity band and electron–electron interactions to magnetoconductance in AlGaN

Low temperature electrical measurements of conductivity, the Hall effect and magnetoconductance were performed on a degenerate AlGaN sample. The sample exhibited negative magnetoconductance at low magnetic fields and low temperatures, with the magnitude being systematically dependent on temperature. The measured magnetoconductance was compared with models proposed previously by Sondheimer and Wilson [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. Ser. A 190 (1947) p. 435] and Lee and Ramakrishan [Rev. Mod. Phys. 57 (1985) p. 287]. Data were analyzed as the sum of the contribution of a two-band and electron–electron interactions to the magnetoconductance, applying these models to describe the observed behavior. Least-squares fits to the data are presented. In the sample, magnetoconductance can be explained reasonably well by assuming these contributions to the measured magnetoconductance. It was found that theoretical and experimental data were in excellent agreement.     

Positive magnetoconductance and dephasing in strongly localized black phosphorus

We study the magnetoconductance and dephasing in a strongly localized regime in black phosphorus (BP) devices. The phase coherence length, l_φ obtained from the magnetoconductance follows a temperature dependence of T^–1/3 in the strongly localized regime with k_Fl_e < 1 (ξ < l_φ) based on the Ioffe–Regel criterion. Here k_F, l_e and ξ are the Fermi wave vector, mean free path and localization length, respectively. The conductance behavior as a function of temperature confirms that the transport regime of our BP is in a variable‐range‐hopping regime, which results in the strongly localized regime.