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Researchers at the University of Manchester have demonstrated the ability to steer electron spin ballistically in ultra-clean graphene using transverse magnetic focusing. The study shows that spin coherence can be maintained up to room temperature, potentially enabling the development of low-power spintronic and quantum devices.

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“Researchers at The University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute have shown that electrons in ultra-clean graphene can be steered with high precision while keeping their spin information intact”
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While Wikipedia confirms the existence of the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester, the provided evidence does not contain any information regarding a specific study on steering electrons in ultra-clean graphene while keeping spin information intact.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Graphene () is a variety of the element carbon which occurs naturally in small amounts. In graphene, the carbon forms a sheet of interlocked atoms as hexagons one carbon atom thick. The result resembl…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Graphene Institute is a research institute and building at the University of Manchester, England, that is focused on the research of graphene. Construction of the building to house the in…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester City Centre on Oxford Road. The university is considered a red brick univers…
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“In a new study published in Physical Review X, the team demonstrates how electrons can travel ballistically, i.e. without experiencing any scattering or resistance, over micrometer distances in graphene at low temperature and maintain spin coherence all the way up to room temperature.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Physical Review is a peer-reviewed scientific journal. The journal was established in 1893 by Edward Nichols. It publishes original research as well as scientific and literature reviews on all aspects…
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“By using a technique known as transverse magnetic focusing (TMF), they were able to bend electron trajectories like light rays traversing a lens and show that these curved paths carry a clear spin signature.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Transverse Magnetic Focusing (TMF) is a known phenomenon used to study electron trajectories and spin-orbit interaction in graphene.
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web search NEUTRAL — This phenomenon, known as transverse magnetic focusing (TMF), has been used to study the Fermi surface of metals and semiconductor heterostructures, as well as to investigate Andreev reflection, spin-…
https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.1969
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web search NEUTRAL — In such a transverse magnetic focusing setup, we have compared the non-local resistance as a function of magnetic field for increasing values of the scaling factor, proving that this approach is parti…
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web search NEUTRAL — This phenomenon, known as transverse magnetic focusing (TMF), has been used to study the Fermi surface of metals and semiconductor heterostructures, as well as to investigate Andreev reflection, spin-…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260519740_Magnetic_…
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“The team's graphene device uses ferromagnetic cobalt contacts to inject and detect spin-polarized electrons at the edge of an encapsulated graphene channel.”
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Multiple web search results discuss the use of ferromagnetic cobalt contacts for spin-injection and detection in encapsulated graphene heterostructures.
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web search NEUTRAL — We study spin transport in a fully hBN encapsulated monolayer-graphene van der Waals heterostructure at room temperature. A top-layer of bilayer-hBN is used as a tunnel barrier for spin-injection and …
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28811470/
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web search NEUTRAL — For spin-injection/detection with conventional ferromagnetic tunnel contacts, the polarization does not change its sign close to zero bias. It can be modied at high bias17.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01328
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web search NEUTRAL — ... Cobalt nanosheets of variable thickness have been also used to realize Co/G/Co spin valves to study spin-magnetotransport in the presence of localized spins [220].The spin polarization of the ferr…
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“Three such peaks were resolved in the study.”
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“the height and sign of these TMF peaks changed depending on the alignment of the magnetic contacts”
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“By varying the voltage applied to the back gate, which tunes the density of electrons in graphene, the researchers could modulate the spin signal dramatically.”
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web search NEUTRAL — The meaning of VARY is to make a partial change in : make different in some attribute or characteristic. How to use vary in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Vary.
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web search NEUTRAL — VARYING definition: 1. changing or different in amount or level, especially from one occasion to another, or from one…. Learn more.
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“the ferromagnetic contacts induce local charge-transfer doping as well as proximity-exchange effect at the graphene edge.”
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web search NEUTRAL — Proximity Effects Induced in Graphene by Magnetic Insulators: First-Principles Calculations on Spin Filtering and Exchange-Splitting Gaps.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289587763_Proximity…
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web search NEUTRAL — Ferromagnetic insulators deposited on graphene can induce ferromagnetic correlations in graphene. We estimate that induced exchange splittings ∆ ∼ 5 meV can be achieved by e.g. using the magnetic insu…
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web search NEUTRAL — The magnetic proximity effect can induce a spin dependent exchange shift in the band structure of graphene. This produces a magnetization and a spin polarization of the electron/hole carriers in this …
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“The team observed clear ballistic behavior at low temperature (25 K), with quasi-ballistic transport still present at room temperature.”
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“Ballistic spin valve in graphene realized via electron optics, Physical Review X (2026). DOI: 10.1103/nz6m-kb4l”
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