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EPL
Volume 104, Number 4, November 2013
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| Article Number | 47001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/104/47001 | |
| Published online | 06 December 2013 | |
Origami-based spintronics in graphene
1 Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal Fluminense - 24210-346 Niterói, RJ, Brazil
2 School of Physics and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin - Dublin 2, Ireland
3 Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices, Trinity College Dublin - Dublin 2, Ireland
4 School of Chemistry and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin - Dublin 2, Ireland
5 Graphene Research Centre and Department of Physics, National University of Singapore - 6 Science Drive 2, 117546, Singapore
6 Department of Physics, Boston University - 590 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA, 02215, USA
(a) antc@if.uff.br
(b) ferreirm@tcd.ie
Received: 5 November 2013
Accepted: 28 November 2013
We show that periodically folded graphene sheets with enhanced spin-orbit interaction due to curvature effects can carry spin-polarized currents and have gaps in the electronic spectrum in the presence of weak magnetic fields. Our results indicate that such origami-like structures can be used efficiently in spintronic applications.
PACS: 72.80.Vp – Electronic transport in graphene / 71.70.Ej – Spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman and Stark splitting, Jahn-Teller effect
© EPLA, 2013
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