Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Date of this Version
5-2018
Citation
To be published in Materials Today. arXiv:1805.07942
Abstract
Advances in scaling down heterostructures and having an improved interface quality together with atomically thin two-dimensional materials suggest a novel approach to systematically design materials. A given material can be transformed through proximity effects whereby it acquires properties of its neighbors, for example, becoming superconducting, magnetic, topologically nontrivial, or with an enhanced spin-orbit coupling. Such proximity effects not only complement the conventional methods of designing materials by doping or functionalization but can also overcome their various limitations. In proximitized materials it is possible to realize properties that are not present in any constituent region of the considered heterostructure. While the focus is on magnetic and spin-orbit proximity effects with their applications in spintronics, the outlined principles provide also a broader framework for employing other proximity effects to tailor materials and realize novel phenomena.
Comments
Copyright © 2018 Igor Žutić, Alex Matos-Abiague, Benedikt Scharf, Hanan Dery, and Kirill Belashchenko. Used by permission.