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Nat Commun. 2012;3:996. doi: 10.1038/ncomms1986.

Observation of resistively detected hole spin resonance and zero-field pseudo-spin splitting in epitaxial graphene.

Nature communications

Ramesh G Mani, John Hankinson, Claire Berger, Walter A de Heer

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, 29 Peachtree Center Avenue, # 400, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 22871815 PMCID: PMC3432463 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1986

Abstract

Electronic carriers in graphene show a high carrier mobility at room temperature. Thus, this system is widely viewed as a potential future charge-based high-speed electronic material to complement-or replace-silicon. At the same time, the spin properties of graphene have suggested improved capability for spin-based electronics or spintronics and spin-based quantum computing. As a result, the detection, characterization and transport of spin have become topics of interest in graphene. Here we report a microwave photo-excited transport study of monolayer and trilayer graphene that reveals an unexpectedly strong microwave-induced electrical response and dual microwave-induced resonances in the dc resistance. The results suggest the resistive detection of spin resonance, and provide a measurement of the g-factor, the spin relaxation time and the sub-lattice degeneracy splitting at zero magnetic field.

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