Publications related to Dresselhaus effect

Field-induced ultrafast modulation of Rashba coupling at room temperature in ferroelectric alpha-GeTe(111)

Rashba materials have appeared as an ideal playground for spin-to-charge conversion in prototype spintronics devices. Among them, alpha-GeTe(111) is a non-centrosymmetric ferroelectric semiconductor for which a strong spin-orbit interaction gives rise to g ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Low-energy excitations in type-II Weyl semimetal T-d-MoTe2 evidenced through optical conductivity

Ana Akrap

Molybdenum ditelluride, MoTe2, is a versatile material where the topological phase can be readily tuned by manipulating the associated structural phase transition. The fine details of the band structure of MoTe2, key to understanding its topological proper ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

BiTeCl and BiTeBr: A comparative high-pressure optical study

Arnaud Magrez, Oleg Yazyev, Gabriel Albert Autes, Helmuth Berger, Philippe Bugnon, Ana Akrap

We here report a detailed high-pressure infrared transmission study of BiTeCl and BiTeBr. We follow the evolution of two band transitions: the optical excitation beta between two Rashba-split conduction bands, and the absorption. across the band gap. In th ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Evolution of the Fermi surface of BiTeCl with pressure

Helmuth Berger

We report measurements of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in the giant Rashba semiconductor BiTeCl under applied pressures up to similar to 2.5 GPa. We observe two distinct oscillation frequencies, corresponding to the Rashba-split inner and outer Fermi sur ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Experimental determination of Rashba and Dresselhaus parameters and g*- factor anisotropy via Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations

Dirk Grundler, Florian Herzog

The spin splitting of conduction band electrons in inversion-asymmetric InGaAs/InP quantum wells (QWs) is studied by Shubnikov-de Haas measurements combining the analysis of beating patterns and coincidence measurements in doubly tilted magnetic fields. Th ...

Institute of Physics (IoP) and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft2017

Experimental determination of the bulk Rashba parameters in BiTeBr

Helmuth Berger, Arnaud Magrez, Philippe Bugnon

Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations, Hall effect, and optical reflectance (R(omega)) measurements have been performed on single crystals of BiTeBr. Under magnetic fields up to 32 tesla and at temperatures as low as 0.4K, the SdH data shows a single oscill ...

IOP Publishing - EPL Association2016

Disentangling bulk and surface Rashba effects in ferroelectric alpha-GeTe

Jan Hugo Dil, Stefan Peter Muff

Macroscopic ferroelectric order in alpha-GeTe with its noncentrosymmetric lattice structure leads to a giant Rashba spin splitting in the bulk bands due to strong spin-orbit interaction. Direct measurements of the bulk band structure using soft x-ray angle ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Origin and Magnitude of 'Designer' Spin-Orbit Interaction in Graphene on Semiconducting Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Helmuth Berger, Zhe Wang

We use a combination of experimental techniques to demonstrate a general occurrence of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in graphene on transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) substrates. Our measurements indicate that SOI is ultrastrong and extremely robust, des ...

American Physical Society2016

Unconventional dc Transport in Rashba Electron Gases

Claudio Grimaldi

We discuss the transport properties of a disordered two-dimensional electron gas with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We show that in the high-density regime where the Fermi energy overcomes the energy associated with spin-orbit coupling, dc transport i ...

American Physical Society2016

Entanglement and manipulation of the magnetic and spin-orbit order in multiferroic Rashba semiconductors

Jan Hugo Dil, Stefan Peter Muff, Mauro Fanciulli, Andrew Patton Weber

Entanglement of the spin-orbit and magnetic order in multiferroic materials bears a strong potential for engineering novel electronic and spintronic devices. Here, we explore the electron and spin structure of ferroelectric alpha-GeTe thin films doped with ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Rashba-type spin splitting and spin interference of the Cu(111) surface state at room temperature

Jan Hugo Dil

We report on the measurement of the Rashba-type spin splitting of the Shockley surface state on Cu(1 1 1) by spin- and angle-resolved photoemission at room temperature. Along the spatial direction expected for a Rashba-type effect the measured spin splitti ...

Elsevier2015

Direct measurement of the bulk spin structure of noncentrosymmetric BiTeCl

Jan Hugo Dil, Stefan Peter Muff

A strong spin-orbit interaction leads to a Rashba-type splitting of the bulk bands of BiTeCl, which results in toroidal Fermi surfaces with distinct spin structures depending on the chemical potential. Here, we present spin-and angle-resolved photoelectron ...

American Physical Society2015

Highly Spin-Polarized Carrier Dynamics and Ultra large Photoinduced Magnetization in CH(3)NH(3)Pbl(3) Perovskite Thin Films

Michael Graetzel, Nripan Mathews

Low-temperature solution-processed organic-inorganic halide perovskite CH3NH3PbI3 has demonstrated great potential for photovoltaics and light-emitting devices. Recent discoveries of long ambipolar carrier diffusion lengths and the prediction of the Rashba ...

American Chemical Society2015

Atomic and electronic structure of a Rashba p-n junction at the BiTeI surface

Marco Grioni, Oleg Yazyev, Helmuth Berger, Philippe Bugnon, Gabriel Albert Autes, Cédric Tournier-Colletta

The non-centro-symmetric semiconductor BiTeI exhibits two distinct surface terminations that support spin-split Rashba surface states. Their ambipolarity can be exploited for creating spin-polarized p-n junctions at the boundaries between domains with diff ...

American Physical Society2014

Optical properties of BiTeBr and BiTeCl

Helmuth Berger, Arnaud Magrez, Philippe Bugnon, Ana Akrap, Dirk Van der Marel

We present a comparative study of the optical properties-reflectance, transmission, and optical conductivity- and Raman spectra of two layered bismuth-tellurohalides BiTeBr and BiTeCl at 300 and 5 K, for light polarized in the a-b planes. Despite different ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

Giant spin splitting of the two-dimensional electron gas at the surface of SrTiO3

Jan Hugo Dil

Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) forming at the interfaces of transition metal oxides(1-3) exhibit a range of properties, including tunable insulator-superconductor-metal transitions(4-6), large magnetoresistance(7), coexisting ferromagnetism and sup ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Momentum and photon energy dependence of the circular dichroic photoemission in the bulk Rashba semiconductors BiTeX (X = I, Br, Cl)

Marco Grioni, Arnaud Magrez, Oleg Yazyev, Helmuth Berger, Alberto Crepaldi, Philippe Bugnon, Gabriel Albert Autes, Luca Moreschini, Jens Christian Johannsen, Cédric Tournier-Colletta

Bulk Rashba systems BiTeX (X = I, Br, Cl) are emerging as important candidates for developing spintronics devices because of the coexistence of spin-split bulk and surface states, along with the ambipolar character of the surface charge carriers. The need ...

American Physical Society2014

Structural and electronic properties of the Bi/Au(110)-1x4 surface

Harald Brune, Marco Grioni, Oleg Yazyev, François Patthey, Marina Pivetta, Alberto Crepaldi, Gabriel Albert Autes, Cédric Tournier-Colletta

We report on the structural and electronic properties of the Bi/Au(110)-1 x 4 surface, by combining scanning tunneling microscopy, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and first-principles calculations. The analysis of the precursor 1 x 8 moire struc ...

American Physical Society2013

Origin of Rashba splitting in the quantized subbands at the Bi2Se3 surface

Klaus Kern, Christian Reinhard Ast

We study the band structure of the Bi2Se3 topological insulator (1 1 1) surface using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We examine the situation where two sets of quantized subbands exhibiting different Rashba spin splitting are created via bendin ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Large polaron formation induced by Rashba spin-orbit coupling

Claudio Grimaldi

Here the electron-phonon Holstein model with Rashba spin-orbit interaction is studied for a two-dimensional square lattice in the adiabatic limit. It is demonstrated that a delocalized electron at zero spin-orbit coupling localizes into a large polaron sta ...

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