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Black phosphorous for pseudospintronics

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Black phosphorus is reported to be a bipolar pseudospin semiconductor, exhibiting a net pseudospin polarization with opposite polarization directions for the conduction and valence bands. These properties make it a promising candidate for application in pseudospintronics.

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Fig. 1: Electronics, spintronics and pseudospintronics.
Fig. 2: The origin of net pseudospin in black phosphorous and its connection with graphene.

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  1. Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Changhua Bao & Shuyun Zhou

  2. State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Changhua Bao & Shuyun Zhou

  3. Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information, Beijing, China

    Shuyun Zhou

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Bao, C., Zhou, S. Black phosphorous for pseudospintronics. Nat. Mater. 19, 263–264 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-0614-y

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