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August 2024
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
"Spin" has been recently reported as an important degree of electronic freedom to promote catalysis, yet how it influences electronic structure remains unexplored. This work reports the spin-induced orbital hybridization in Ir─Fe bimetallic aerogels, where the electronic structure of Ir sites is effectively regulated by tuning the spin property of Fe atoms. The spin-optimized electronic structure boosts oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysis in acidic media, resulting in a largely improved catalytic performance with an overpotential of as low as 236 mV at 10 mA cm.
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June 2024
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
The key challenge of spin-orbit torque applications lies in exploring an excellent spin source capable of generating out-of-plane spins while exhibiting high spin Hall conductivity. Here we combine PtTe for high spin conductivity and WTe for low crystal symmetry to satisfy the above requirements. The PtTe/WTe bilayers exhibit a high in-plane spin Hall conductivity σ ≈ 2.
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March 2023
Department of Physics, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 116, Taiwan.
Recent progress in organic electronics has attracted interest due to their excellent characteristics that include photovoltaic, light emission, and semiconducting behaviours. Spin-induced properties play important roles in organic electronics, while introducing spin into an organic layer in which spin responses, such as a weak spin-orbital coupling and long spin-relaxation time, allows a variety of spintronic applications to be achieved. However, such spin responses are rapidly attenuated by misalignment in the electronic structure of hybrid structures.
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March 2023
Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (IQSE) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA.
The spin angular momentums of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on chiral material interfaces and the Imbert-Fedorov shifts of linearly polarized light beams are investigated. Compared to a traditional TM-polarized SPP having a transverse spin, the SPP on a chiral material interface also has a longitudinal spin component, resulting from the nature that this new kind of SPP is a hybrid of TE and TM-polarized evanescent waves. When a light beam is incident on a sandwich structure composed of chiral material, prisms, and metal layers, in which the SPP is supported, the reflection and transmission processes can be analogous to the transport of a photon in a waveguide QED system.
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January 2023
Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States.
We investigate how the Berry force (i.e., the pseudomagnetic force operating on nuclei as induced by electronic degeneracy and spin-orbit coupling (SOC)) might modify a post-transition state bifurcation (PTSB) reaction path and affect product selectivity for situations when multiple products share the same transition state.
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