Unexpected Outstanding Room Temperature Spin Transport Verified in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Film.

Fundamental understanding on the spin transport properties of semiconducting organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites (OIHP) is of great importance for advancing their applications for spin-optoelectronic devices. Herein, the study of spin-pumping induced inverse spin Hall effect in Ni80Fe20(Py)/CH3NH3PbCl3-xIx/Pt trilayers with different OIHP spacer thicknesses concludes the spin diffusion length in CH3NH3PbCl3-xIx as large as 61 ± 7 nm at room temperature. In addition, spin-valves with a structure of Ni80Fe20(Py)/CH3NH3PbCl3-xIx/AlOx/Co was fabricated as well. Using a ∼160 nm-thick CH3NH3PbCl3-xIx spacer, the present spin valve exhibits a positive magnetoresistance (MR) of 0.57% at 10 K. Thus, the present spin related results demonstrate that electrical spin-polarized carrier injection, transport, and detection, which are essential in spintronic devices, can be successfully established in OIHP films. The outstanding spin transport in the present CH3NH3PbCl3-xIx should be owing to its highly out-of-plane oriented crystalline texture and Rashba spin splitting at domain boundaries between crystallographic orientations. These results demonstrate OIHP as very attractive materials for spintronics.