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Spin-Polarized Electronic Transport through Ferromagnet/
Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Spinterfaces at Room
Temperature
Kai Wang,* Qin Yang, Jiashun Duan, Caixia Zhang, Fenggui Zhao, Haomiao Yu,
and Bin Hu*
DOI: 10.1002/admi.201900718
Organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites
(OIHPs) have gained unprecedented
attention due to their high power con-
version efficiencies (PCE) for solar
cell applications.
[1–3]
The prototypical
halide perovskite semiconductor meth-
ylammonium lead iodide chloride
(CH
3
NH
3
PbI
3−x
Cl
x
) is by far one of the
most successful photovoltaic candidates
for achieving championed PCE because of
its direct–indirect bandgap with optimal
gap energy (≈1.5 eV), low binding energy
for efficient exciton dissociation, high
absorption coefficient within the wide
solar spectrum, and long electronic charge
transport distance (≈1−10 μm).
[4–7]
In
fact, its octahedral crystalline framework
together with the randomly oriented and
caged organic constituent (i.e., CH
3
NH
3
+
)
is expected to offer semiconducting, fer-
roelectric, and even spin-related charac-
teristics simultaneously.
[8–11]
Nevertheless,
a large number of studies have focused at
the semiconducting properties associated
optoelectronic phenomena by overviewing
the presently affiliated research, and are
concerned with the electronic charge
transport behavior, mainly in solar cells and light-emitting
devices (LEDs).
[12]
It remains challenging and intriguing to con-
sider using spin-polarized electrons as information carriers/
bits for data transmission and processing in order to exten-
sively explore novel and multifunctional properties in OIHPs
based optospintronic devices.
[13,14]
As we know, the organic–inorganic halide perovskite such
as CH
3
NH
3
PbI
3−x
Cl
x
contains the heavy elements such as lead
(Pb) and iodine (I). Both elements are expected to offer rela-
tively large spin–orbit coupling (SOC) effect and contribute to
the nondegenerated energy band splitting.
[7,15–17]
Theoretically,
the effect has been predicted to speed up hot electron and hole
relaxations while allowing a rapid transition to long-lived triplet
states. As a result, it helps to extend charge carrier lifetime.
[18]
In spintronics, SOC may give rise to the spin dephase for spin
injection and transport. On the other hand, the intrinsic physical
properties such as high carrier concentration and mobility for
CH
3
NH
3
PbI
3−x
Cl
x
may make the spin injection more efficient
by the electrical means via a ferromagnet and avert conductivity
Organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites (OIHPs) have been explosively
investigated mainly due to their potential applications in optoelectronics.
Despite the electronic charge transport, phenomena regarding the spin-
polarized electronic transport in OIHPs-based spintronic devices and
the role of ferromagnet/OIHP spinterfaces remain unclear. In this work,
the spin injection, accumulation, transport, and detection at room tem-
perature for a vertical perovskite spin valve (PeSV) consisting of Ni/
CH
3
NH
3
PbI
3−x
Cl
x
/Ni is reported. An in-plane anisotropic magnetoresist-
ance (AMR) and a PeSV related magnetoresistance (MR) show remarkable
magnetic switching behaviors due to the formation of Ni/CH
3
NH
3
PbI
3−x
Cl
x
spinterfaces, and the ferromagnetic coupling between two spin quantiza-
tion axes of the spinterfaces. With assists of capacitance–frequency (C − − f )
measurements under magnetic fields, the spin accumulation that occurs at
the Ni/CH
3
NH
3
PbI
3−x
Cl
x
interface can be detected at the spin parallel (↑↑)
and antiparallel (↑↓) configurations. Owing to a strong orbital interaction
at the Ni/CH
3
NH
3
PbI
3−x
Cl
x
hybrid interface, the spin-sensitive electron par-
amagnetic spectroscopy (EPR) reveals significant change of the magnetic
moment (
μ
). It is believed that the solution processed CH
3
NH
3
PbI
3−x
Cl
x
and the formation of the Ni/CH
3
NH
3
PbI
3−x
Cl
x
spinterface may hold an
exceptionally important role for future hybrid optospintronic applications.
Dr. K. Wang, Q. Yang, C. Zhang, F. Zhao, Dr. H. Yu, Prof. B. Hu
Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Optical Information
Ministry of Education
School of Science
Beijing Jiaotong University
Beijing 100044, China
E-mail: kaiwang@bjtu.edu.cn; bhu@utk.edu
J. Duan
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Wuhan 430074, China
Prof. B. Hu
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
The ORCID identification number(s) for the author(s) of this article
can be found under https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201900718.
Hybrid Perovskite Spinterfaces
Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 1900718