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  • Title: Ferroelectric control of Rashba spin orbit coupling at the GeTe(111)/InP(111) interface.
    Author: Meng YH, Bai W, Gao H, Gong SJ, Wang JQ, Duan CG, Chu JH.
    Journal: Nanoscale; 2017 Nov 23; 9(45):17957-17962. PubMed ID: 29125168.
    Abstract:
    GeTe is a prototypical compound of a new class of multifunctional materials, i.e., ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors (FRS). In the present work, by combining the first-principles calculations and Rashba model analysis, we reexamine Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a GeTe(111) crystal and clarify its linear Rashba SOC strength. We further investigate Rashba SOC at the interface of a GeTe(111)/InP(111) superlattice and demonstrate the ferroelectric manipulation of Rashba SOC in detail. A large modulation of Rashba SOC is obtained, and surprisingly, we find that Rashba SOC does not monotonically increase with the increase of ferroelectric displacement, due to the parabola opening reversal of Rashba splitting bands. In addition, a reversal of the spin texture is realized by tuning the ferroelectric polarization. Our investigation provides a deep insight into the ferroelectric control of Rashba SOC, which is of great importance in FRS spin field effect transistors.
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