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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
physics and astronomy
Spin-orbit-induced spin splittings in polar transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers
EPL, Volume 102, No. 5, Article 57001, Year 2013
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The Rashba effect in quasi two-dimensional materials, such as noble metal surfaces and semiconductor heterostructures, has been investigated extensively, while interest in real two-dimensional systems has just emerged with the discovery of graphene. We present ab initio electronic structure, phonon, and molecular-dynamics calculations to study the structural stability and spin-orbit-induced spin splitting in the transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers MXY (M = Mo, W and X, Y = S, Se, Te). In contrast to the non-polar systems with X = Y, in the polar systems with X ≠ Y the Rashba splitting at the Γ-point for the uppermost valence band is caused by the broken mirror symmetry. An enhancement of the splitting can be achieved by increasing the spin-orbit coupling and/or the potential gradient. © Copyright EPLA, 2013.
Authors & Co-Authors
Cheng, Yingchun
Saudi Arabia, Thuwal
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Zhu, Zhiyong
Saudi Arabia, Thuwal
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Tahir, Muhammad
Saudi Arabia, Thuwal
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Schwingenschlögl, Udo Erich
Saudi Arabia, Thuwal
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Statistics
Citations: 286
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 1
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Doi:
10.1209/0295-5075/102/57001
ISSN:
02955075
e-ISSN:
12864854