Defect-gradient-induced Rashba effect in van der Waals PtSe2 layers

Materials with strong Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling hold promise for spintronic applications and the investigation of topological phases of matter. Here, the authors report a method to generate layer-by-layer defect gradients in a van der Waals material, inducing broken spatial inversion symmetry...

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Main Authors: Junhyeon Jo, Jung Hwa Kim, Choong H. Kim, Jaebyeong Lee, Daeseong Choe, Inseon Oh, Seunghyun Lee, Zonghoon Lee, Hosub Jin, Jung-Woo Yoo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30414-4