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The industrial scale development of devices based on 2D materials requires
some original
thinking in their deposition and growth. For graphene, this means direct
growth of single or few
layer graphene, without physical transfer or metal catalysts, on appropriate
dielectric substrates.
For hexagonal BN, this means the growth of epitaxial few layer films, with
atomically precise
control of layer thickness—difficult to achieve via the usual route of
borazine pyrolysis. We
have recently demonstrated the direct, layer-by-layer growth of high quality
azimuthally oriented
graphene on Co3O4(111)/Co(0001) by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) [1], and the
layer-by-layer
growth of BN(0001) on Co(0001) by atomic layer deposition [2]. Both the
graphene/oxide and
BN/Co systems have the potential for novel spin transport behavior and device
applications.
For graphene/Co3O4(0001)/Co(0001), strong graphene-to-oxide charge transfer
leads to
coupling between localized oxide spins and delocalized graphene carriers,
yielding substrateinduced
polarization of graphene carriers, and antiferromagnetic hysteresis to > 400 K
[3], even
though TN for Co3O4 is only 40 K. Very recent experimental and theoretical
developments
suggest that such graphene growth can be extended to other p-type magnetic
oxides, making
possible a broad array of robust devices based on coherent spin polarization
and transport,
rather than inefficient injection of discrete spins. For BN, recent
theoretical work [4] suggests
highly efficient spin filtering for Co/BN/Co magnetic tunnel junctions,
yielding tunneling
magnetoresistance values > 1000%, but highly dependent on the number of BN
layers. This
talk will focus on the surface chemistry of both graphene and BN deposition,
and how this
chemistry in both cases yields exciting new electronic and magnetic
properties.
Acknowledgements: This work was partially supported by the Semiconductor
Research
Corporation.
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