Material gives up its spin-splitting secrets - physicsworld.com

Material gives up its spin-splitting secrets - physicsworld.com
The first direct observation of giant spin-splitting has been made by an international team of researchers, which made the discovery while trying to develop spintronic technologies. The discovery came as a surprise because the material being studied – tungsten diselenide (WSe2) – has a crystal symmetry that, conventionally, would not allow for such spin-splitting to occur.