Electric charge is no longer required to carry information as scientists find a practical way to use spintronics in graphene.

A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

Researchers use circularly polarized light to control the direction of exciton polaritons in 2D semiconductors, enabling new tools for nanoscale photonics.

The study identifies a new class of layered antiferromagnets with spin-valley locking, offering efficient spin control without relying on spin–orbit coupling. Altermagnets are a newly recognized class ...

Chirality in organic superconductors was found to induce giant spin-current coupling, mimicking strong spin-orbit effects. This opens new pathways for advanced superconducting devices. Recent studies ...

In this work we propose a new perspective in order to unveil the mechanism leading to the spin-orbit de/coupling of light at the nanoscale. Taking into account the factorizability condition of the ...

A strong spin-orbit coupling develops at the interface between graphene and heavy metal, resulting in a variety of quantum effects such as spin-orbit splitting of energy levels (Rashba effect) and ...

“The realization of spin-orbit-torque spin injectors is a decisive step that will greatly advance the development of ultrafast and energy-efficient spin-lasers for the next generation of optical ...

Owing to Dresselhaus spin-orbit-coupling effect, an electron-spin filter device is put forward in a double-layered semiconductor microstructure. An obvious electron-spin polarization is observed and ...

They also found that the spin-orbit coupling strength for electrons near the conduction band edge in few-layer γ-InSe films can also be tuned over a wide range. This tunability results from a ...