Time- and spatially-resolved Faraday rotation spectroscopy is used to measure the magnitude and direction of the momentum-dependent spin splitting in strained InGaAs epilayers. The epilayers are lattice-matched to the GaAs substrate and designed to reduce inhomogeneous effects related to strain relaxation. Measurements of momentum-dependent spin splitting as a function of electron spin drift velocity along [100], [010], [110] and [110] directions enable separation of isotropic and anisotropic effective magnetic fields that arise from uniaxial and biaxial strain along ⟨110⟩. We relate our findings to previous measurements and theoretical predictions of spin splitting for inversion symmetry breaking in bulk strained semiconductors.
@article{arxiv.1006.5685,
title = {Mapping spin-orbit splitting in strained InGaAs epilayers},
author = {B. M. Norman and C. J. Trowbridge and J. Stephens and A. C. Gossard and D. D. Awschalom and V. Sih},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.5685},
year = {2010}
}