Room-Temperature Spin Transport in Cd3As2. 2021

Gregory M Stephen, and Aubrey T Hanbicki, and Timo Schumann, and Jeremy T Robinson, and Manik Goyal, and Susanne Stemmer, and Adam L Friedman
Laboratory for Physical Sciences, 8050 Greenmead Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740, United States.

As the need for ever greater transistor density increases, the commensurate decrease in device size approaches the atomic limit, leading to increased energy loss and leakage currents, reducing energy efficiencies. Alternative state variables, such as electronic spin rather than electronic charge, have the potential to enable more energy-efficient and higher performance devices. These spintronic devices require materials capable of efficiently harnessing the electron spin. Here we show robust spin transport in Cd3As2 films up to room temperature. We demonstrate a nonlocal spin valve switch from this material, as well as inverse spin Hall effect measurements yielding spin Hall angles as high as θSH = 1.5 and spin diffusion lengths of 10-40 μm. Long spin-coherence lengths with efficient charge-to-spin conversion rates and coherent spin transport up to room temperature, as we show here in Cd3As2, are enabling steps toward realizing actual spintronic devices.

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