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Origin of Giant Rashba Effect in Graphene on Pt/SiC
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Anna A. Rybkina, Alevtina A. Gogina, Artem V. Tarasov, Ye Xin, Vladimir Yu. Voroshnin, Dmitrii A. Pudikov, Ilya I. Klimovskikh, Anatoly E. Petukhov, Kirill A. Bokai, Chengxun Yuan, Zhongxiang Zhou, Alexander M. Shikin and Artem G. Rybkin
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Intercalation of noble metals can produce giant Rashba-type spin–orbit splittings in graphene. The spin–orbit splitting of more than 100 meV has yet to be achieved in graphene on metal or semiconductor substrates. Here, we report the p-type graphene obtained by Pt intercalation of
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Intercalation of noble metals can produce giant Rashba-type spin–orbit splittings in graphene. The spin–orbit splitting of more than 100 meV has yet to be achieved in graphene on metal or semiconductor substrates. Here, we report the p-type graphene obtained by Pt intercalation of zero-layer graphene on SiC substrate. The spin splitting of ∼200 meV was observed at a wide range of binding energies. Comparing the results of theoretical studies of different models with the experimental ones measured by spin-ARPES, XPS and STM methods, we concluded that inducing giant spin–orbit splitting requires not only a relatively close distance between graphene and Pt layer but also the presence of graphene corrugation caused by a non-flat Pt layer. This makes it possible to find a compromise between strong hybridization and increased spin–orbit interaction. In our case, the Pt submonolayer possesses nanometer-scale lateral ordering under graphene.
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