Tunable lateral spin polarization and spin-dependent collimation in velocity-modulated ferromagnetic-gate graphene structures

Journal article

Authors/Editors

WATCHARA LIEWRIAN

Strategic Research Themes

Modeling Design and Optimization (Computational Science and Engineering)

Publication Details

Author list: Saipaopan C., Choopan W., Liewrian W.

Publisher: Springer

Publication year: 2021

Journal: Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism (1557-1939)

Volume number: 34

Issue number: 10

Start page: 2573

End page: 2581

Number of pages: 9

ISSN: 1557-1939

eISSN: 1557-1947

URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85105416086&doi=10.1007%2fs10948-021-05841-x&partnerID=40&md5=6b68752ab4c4b634109010501ec5291e

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Abstract

The influence of spatial variation of Fermi velocity on the spin-polarized transport properties of massless Dirac fermions in proximity-induced ferromagnetic graphene junction was investigated. We found that the velocity ratio ξ causing the width of the spin conductance dip near the Dirac point is broadened as the Fermi velocity ratio increases. In contrast, the effect of the Fermi velocity mismatch does not affect the shifting of the Dirac point. It leads to the indirect measurement of the Fermi velocity ratio that can be tuned by the spin-dependent conductance. In addition to the presence of both the exchange field and the Fermi velocity modulation, we found high spin filtering occurs when the Fermi velocity ratio ξ ≥ 1. Due to the transmission probability of electron with spin down, T↓ is blocked by the effect of Fermi velocity modulation similar to waves travelling through a different media. Moreover, we also found that the resonant transmission of the electron with spin up can be perfectly transmitted through the Fermi velocity barrier at the limit injected angle θ → π/2 for H/EF ≈ 1. The spin transport properties can be controlled by suitably modifying the strength of the ferromagnetic insulator and varying the Fermi velocity modulation, which leads to the highest spin polarization. By manipulating the behavior of spin-dependent collimation and spin beam splitting in this structure, we proposed a spin transport device for making lateral spin polarization. These interesting features will help make the development of spintronic devices in the graphene-based nanostructure. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

Keywords

Ballistic transport, Spin polarization