The Rashba-Edelstein effect (REE), which generates interfacial spin polarization and subsequent spin current, is a compelling spin-charge conversion mechanism for spintronic applications, since it's not limited by the elemental spin-orbit couplings. In this work we demonstrate REE at Pt/ferroelectric interfaces by showing a positive correlation between polarization and effective spin Hall angle in the recently elucidated spin Hall Hanle effects (SHHE), in which a Larmor precession of spin polarization in a diffusion process from the interface manifest as magnetoresistance and Hall effect. We show that REE leads to a large enhancement of the effective spin Hall angle of ferroelectric interface $\mathrm{Pt}/\mathrm{h}\text{−}\mathrm{LuFe}{\mathrm{O}}_3$ compared with that of $\mathrm{Pt}/\mathrm{A}{\mathrm{l}}_2{\mathrm{O}}_3$, without obvious differences in the spin relaxation time. Modeling using SHHEs involving REE as an additional source of interfacial polarization suggests that REE can lead to an interfacial spin Hall angle ($0.4\pm 0.1$) in $\mathrm{Pt}/\mathrm{h}\text{−}\mathrm{LuFe}{\mathrm{O}}_3$ that is one order of magnitude larger than the bulk value of Pt. Our results demonstrate that a ferroelectric interface can produce large spin-charge conversion and that SHHEs are a sensitive tool for characterizing interfacial spin-transport properties.

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• Electrical generation of spin carriers
• Spin current
• Spintronics