Nanowerk July 8, 2019
While studying Fe3GeTe2 (FGT) which has promising ferromagnetic properties for spintronic devices, an international team of researchers (Australia, China, South Korea, Russia) discovered magnetoresistance in devices with ferromagnetic van-der-Waals (vdW) materials. They attributed this property to a spin momentum locking induced spin-polarized current at the graphite/FGT interface. The research reveals that ferromagnetic heterostructures assembled from vdW materials can exhibit substantially different properties to those exhibited by similar heterostructures grown in vacuum. Hence, it highlights the potential for new physics and new spintronic applications to be discovered using vdW heterostructures…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE