Yang Haozhe, Martín-García Beatriz, Kimák Jozef, Schmoranzerová Eva, Dolan Eoin, Chi Zhendong, Gobbi Marco, Němec Petr, Hueso Luis E, Casanova Fèlix
CIC nanoGUNE BRTA, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain.
Fert Beijing Institute, MIIT Key Laboratory of Spintronics, School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China.
Nat Mater. 2024 Nov;23(11):1502-1508. doi: 10.1038/s41563-024-01985-y. Epub 2024 Aug 27.
Twist engineering has emerged as a powerful approach for modulating electronic properties in van der Waals heterostructures. While theoretical works have predicted the modulation of spin texture in graphene-based heterostructures by twist angle, experimental studies are lacking. Here, by performing spin precession experiments, we demonstrate tunability of the spin texture and associated spin-charge interconversion with twist angle in WSe/graphene heterostructures. For specific twist angles, we detect a spin component radial with the electron's momentum, in addition to the standard orthogonal component. Our results show that the helicity of the spin texture can be reversed by twist angle, highlighting the critical role of the twist angle in the spin-orbit properties of WSe/graphene heterostructures and paving the way for the development of spin-twistronic devices.
扭转工程已成为调控范德华异质结构中电子性质的一种强大方法。虽然理论研究已经预测了基于石墨烯的异质结构中自旋纹理会因扭转角而发生调制,但缺乏实验研究。在此,通过进行自旋进动实验,我们证明了在WSe/石墨烯异质结构中,自旋纹理以及相关的自旋-电荷相互转换随扭转角具有可调性。对于特定的扭转角,除了标准的正交分量外,我们还检测到一个与电子动量径向相关的自旋分量。我们的结果表明,自旋纹理的螺旋度可通过扭转角反转,这突出了扭转角在WSe/石墨烯异质结构的自旋轨道性质中的关键作用,并为自旋扭转电子器件的发展铺平了道路。