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Nonlocal spin transport in single walled carbon nanotube networks
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Spin transport in carbon-based materials has stimulated much interest due to their ballistic conductance and a long phase coherence length. While much research has been conducted on individual carbon nanotubes, current growth and placement techniques are incompatible with large-scale fabrication. Here, we report on nonlocal spin injection and detection in single-walled carbon nanotube networks. We observe spin transport over a distance of 1 \ensuremath{\mu}m and extract a spin diffusion length of 1.6--2.4 \ensuremath{\mu}m with an injected spin polarization from CoFe into nanotube network of 18$%$--41$%$. Our observations demonstrate that spin transport is possible in carbon nanotube networks due to the formation of natural tunnel barriers between nanotubes and metallic contacts.
- Subjects :
- Nanotube
Condensed Matter - Materials Science
Materials science
Condensed matter physics
Spin polarization
Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
chemistry.chemical_element
Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
FOS: Physical sciences
Carbon nanotube
Condensed Matter Physics
Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Carbon nanotube field-effect transistor
law.invention
Carbon nanotube quantum dot
Condensed Matter::Materials Science
chemistry
law
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
Spin diffusion
Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons
Carbon
Spin-½
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5af79bc6a35a1eb4e73b90edb3d640a4