Terahertz Electronic and Spin Currents in Wafer‐Scale Van der Waals Bi <sub>2</sub> Se <sub>3</sub> /WSe <sub>2</sub> Heterostructures and Polymorphs
Abstract
Abstract Van der Waals heterostructures and polymorphs have promised the realization of artificial materials with multiple physical phenomena such as giant optical nonlinearities, spin‐to‐charge interconversion in spintronics and topological carrier protection, through an infinitely diverse set of 2D quantum materials and their stacking order in a single layered device. However, their exploitation for the terahertz range has been limited with most investigations based around the optical domain, owing to the use of exfoliated material that inherently limits both the dimensions of the materials and the scalability for applications. Here, the combination of terahertz electronic and spin currents is demonstrated through the realization of large area complex crystalline heterostructures of topological insulators, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and ferromagnets. This is demonstrated through down‐conversion of optical beams into coherent terahertz currents, where the terahertz phase permits the decoupling of the physical phenomena, and bringing novel functionalities beyond those achievable in simple homostructures. In particular, the role of different TMD polymorphs (stacking orders ‐ 1T′, 2H, and 3R) is shown with the simple change of one atomic monolayer of the material stack entirely changing the terahertz responses – both electrical and magnetic ‐ of the artificial material. This allows to highlight ultrafast phenomena that combine both the electronic‐ and spin‐based processes in these structures. The importance of the crystal symmetry on the magnetic properties through proximity effects is further demonstrated, showing a nonlinearity of magnetic origin as a result of the 1T′ polymorph. As well as control of the terahertz currents through different polymorphs, this scalable integration of a set of highly diverse materials establishes a platform for next‐generation 2D heterostructures that integrate photonic, electronic, and spintronic properties into device architectures.
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Authors (23)
M. Mičica
Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS Université PSL, CNRS Sorbonne Université Université Paris Cité Paris F‐75005 France
A. Wright
Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS Université PSL, CNRS Sorbonne Université Université Paris Cité Paris F‐75005 France
S. Massabeau
Laboratoire Albert Fert, CNRS, Thales Université Paris‐Saclay Palaiseau 91767 France
S. Ayari
Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS Université PSL, CNRS Sorbonne Université Université Paris Cité Paris F‐75005 France
E. Rongione
Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS Université PSL, CNRS Sorbonne Université Université Paris Cité Paris F‐75005 France
M. Oliveira Ribeiro
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS Grenoble INP, IRIG‐SPINTEC Grenoble F‐38000 France
S. Husain
Laboratoire Albert Fert, CNRS, Thales Université Paris‐Saclay Palaiseau 91767 France
R. Sharma
T. Denneulin
Ernst Ruska‐Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons Forschungszentrum Jülich D‐52425 Jülich Germany
R. E. Dunin‐Borkowski
Ernst Ruska‐Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons Forschungszentrum Jülich D‐52425 Jülich Germany
J. Mangeney
Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité 1 , Paris F-75005,
J. Tignon
Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité 1 , Paris F-75005,
R. Lebrun
Laboratoire Albert Fert, CNRS, Thales Université Paris‐Saclay Palaiseau 91767 France
H. Okuno
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, IRIG‐MEM Grenoble 38000 France
O. Boulle
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS Grenoble INP, IRIG‐SPINTEC Grenoble F‐38000 France
A. Marty
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS Grenoble INP, IRIG‐SPINTEC Grenoble F‐38000 France
F. Bonell
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS Grenoble INP, IRIG‐SPINTEC Grenoble F‐38000 France
F. Carosella
Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS Université PSL, CNRS Sorbonne Université Université Paris Cité Paris F‐75005 France
H. Jaffrès
Laboratoire Albert Fert, CNRS, Thales, Université Paris-Saclay , 91767 Palaiseau,
R. Ferreira
Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité 1 , Paris F-75005,
J.‐M. George
Laboratoire Albert Fert, CNRS, Thales Université Paris‐Saclay Palaiseau 91767 France
M. Jamet
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS Grenoble INP, IRIG‐SPINTEC Grenoble F‐38000 France
S. Dhillon
Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité 1 , Paris F-75005,