Graphite and graphene as perfect spin filters

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2007-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/0708.1735v1

Phys Rev Lett 99, 176602 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.176602

Based upon the observations (i) that their in-plane lattice constants match almost perfectly and (ii) that their electronic structures overlap in reciprocal space for one spin direction only, we predict perfect spin filtering for interfaces between graphite and (111) fcc or (0001) hcp Ni or Co. The spin filtering is quite insensitive to roughness and disorder. The formation of a chemical bond between graphite and the open $d$-shell transition metals that might complicate or even prevent spin injection into a single graphene sheet can be simply prevented by dusting Ni or Co with one or a few monolayers of Cu while still preserving the ideal spin injection property.

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