{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Feng R"],"funding":["Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology)","National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China)"],"pagination":["2667"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11920107"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["16(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Achieving a large spin splitting is highly desirable for spintronic devices, which often requires breaking of the inversion symmetry. However, many atomically thin films are centrosymmetric, making them unsuitable for spintronic applications. Here, we report a strategy to achieve inversion symmetry breaking from a centrosymmetric transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) bilayer PtTe<sub>2</sub>, leading to a giant Rashba spin splitting. Specifically, the thermal annealing turns one layer of PtTe<sub>2</sub> sample into a transition metal monochalcogenide (TMMC) PtTe through Te extraction, thus forming PtTe/PtTe<sub>2</sub> heterostructure with inversion symmetry breaking. In this naturally-formed PtTe/PtTe<sub>2</sub> heterostructure, we observe a giant Rashba spin splitting with Rashba coef"],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pubmed_title":["Giant Rashba splitting in PtTe/PtTe&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; heterostructure."],"pmcid":["PMC11920107"],"funding_grant_id":["52388201,12234011,92250305,52025024,11725418","2021YFA1400100,2023YFA1406400,2020YFA0308800"],"pubmed_authors":["Li J","Yu P","Zhou S","Zhang H","Sugawara K","Li Q","Yaegashi K","Sato T","Zhang Y","Chen W","Feng R","Bao C","Duan W","Tang X"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Giant Rashba splitting in PtTe/PtTe&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; heterostructure.","description":"Achieving a large spin splitting is highly desirable for spintronic devices, which often requires breaking of the inversion symmetry. However, many atomically thin films are centrosymmetric, making them unsuitable for spintronic applications. Here, we report a strategy to achieve inversion symmetry breaking from a centrosymmetric transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) bilayer PtTe<sub>2</sub>, leading to a giant Rashba spin splitting. Specifically, the thermal annealing turns one layer of PtTe<sub>2</sub> sample into a transition metal monochalcogenide (TMMC) PtTe through Te extraction, thus forming PtTe/PtTe<sub>2</sub> heterostructure with inversion symmetry breaking. In this naturally-formed PtTe/PtTe<sub>2</sub> heterostructure, we observe a giant Rashba spin splitting with Rashba coef","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Mar","modification":"2025-04-05T22:08:29.862Z","creation":"2025-04-05T22:08:29.862Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11920107","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40102421"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-025-57835-1"]}}