In addition to manipulating the charge or spin of electrons, another way to control electric current is by using the 'valley' degree-of-freedom of electrons. The first demonstration of the generation, transport and detection of valley-polarized electrons in bulk diamond now opens up new opportunities for quantum control in electronic devices.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Relevant articles
Open Access articles citing this article.
-
Thermodynamic evidence of magnetic-field-induced complete valley polarization in bismuth
Scientific Reports Open Access 08 February 2019
-
Multivalley engineering in semiconductor microcavities
Scientific Reports Open Access 03 April 2017
-
Classification of Valleytronics in Thermoelectricity
Scientific Reports Open Access 14 March 2016
Access options
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 12 print issues and online access
$259.00 per year
only $21.58 per issue
Buy this article
- Purchase on Springer Link
- Instant access to full article PDF
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
Change history
30 October 2013
In the version of the News & Views article 'Valleytronics: Electrons dance in diamond' originally published (Nature Mater. 12, 690–691; 2013) short excerpts have been duplicated without proper attribution from a published article (K. Behnia, Nature Nanotech. 7, 488–489; 2012). The author apologizes for the confusion caused. Corrected after print 30 October 2013.
References
Dyakonov, M. I. Physica E 35, 246–250 (2006).
Rycerz, A., Tworzydlo, J. & Beenakker, C. W. J. Nature Phys. 3, 172–175 (2007).
Xiao, D., Yao, W. & Niu, Q. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 236809 (2007).
Akhmerov, A. R. & Beenakker, C. W. J. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 157003 (2007).
Bishop, N. C. et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 266404 (2007).
Zhu, Z. W., Collaudin, A., Fauque, B., Kang, W. & Behnia, K. Nature Phys. 8, 89–94 (2012).
Zeng, H. L., Dai, J. F., Yao, W., Xiao, D. & Cui, X. D. Nature Nanotech. 7, 490–493 (2012).
Mak, K. F., He, K. L., Shan, J. & Heinz, T. F. Nature Nanotech. 7, 494–498 (2012).
Cao, T. et al. Nature Commun. 3, 887 (2012).
Isberg, J. et al. Nature Mater. 12, 760–764 (2013).
Balasubramanian, G. et al. Nature Mater. 8, 383–387 (2009).
Jelezko, F. & Wrachtrup, J. New J. Phys. 14, 105024–105026 (2012).
Löfas, H., Grigoriev, A., Isberg, J. & Ahuja, R. AIP Advances 1, 032139 (2011).
Pavone, P. et al. Phys. Rev. B 48, 3156–3163 (1993).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Nebel, C. Electrons dance in diamond. Nature Mater 12, 690–691 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3724
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3724
This article is cited by
-
A brief review of thermal transport in mesoscopic systems from nonequilibrium Green’s function approach
Frontiers of Physics (2021)
-
Thermodynamic evidence of magnetic-field-induced complete valley polarization in bismuth
Scientific Reports (2019)
-
Valleytronics in transition metal dichalcogenides materials
Nano Research (2019)
-
Multivalley engineering in semiconductor microcavities
Scientific Reports (2017)
-
State-of-the-art developments in metal and carbon-based semiconducting nanomaterials: applications and functions in spintronics, nanophotonics, and nanomagnetics
Advances in Manufacturing (2017)
