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Injecting spin-polarized carriers into semiconductor lasers provides important opportunities to extend what is known about spintronic devices, as well as to overcome many limitations of conventional (spin-unpolarized) lasers. By developing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-27 Paulo E. Faria Junior , Gaofeng Xu , Jeongsu Lee , Nils C. Gerhardt , Guilherme M. Sipahi , Igor Žutić

Spintronics, the use of spin of an electron instead of its charge, has received huge attention from research communities for different applications including memory, interconnects, logic implementation, neuromorphic computing, and many…

Magnetic skyrmions, which are topological particle-like excitations in ferromagnets, have attracted a lot of attention recently. Skyrmionics is an attempt to use magnetic skyrmions as information carriers in next generation spintronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-26 Xichao Zhang , Motohiko Ezawa , Yan Zhou

Magnetic skyrmions have been in the spotlight since their observation in technologically relevant systems at room temperature. More recently, there has been increasing interest in additional quasiparticles that may exist as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Runze Chen , Yu Li , Vasilis F. Pavlidis , Christoforos Moutafis

Semiconductor spin lasers are distinguished from their conventional counterparts by the presence of spin-polarized carriers. The transfer of angular momentum of the spin-polarized carriers to photons provides important opportunities for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Gaofeng Xu , David Cao , Velimir Labinac , Igor Žutić

The electron transport properties of hybrid ferromagnetic|normal metal structures such as multilayers and spin valves depend on the relative orientation of the magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic elements. Whereas the contrast in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Paul J. Kelly

Altermagnets hold great potential for spintronic applications, yet their intrinsic spin dynamics and associated transport properties remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigate spin-resolved quantum transport in a multi-terminal setup…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Li-Shuo Liu , Kai Shao , Hai-Dong Li , Xiangang Wan , Wei Chen , D. Y. Xing

We present a theory of magnetotransport through a system of two coupled electronic orbitals, where the electron spin interacts with a (large) local magnetic moment via an exchange interaction. For the physical realization of such a set-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 Klemens Mosshammer , Gerold Kiesslich , Tobias Brandes

The transport property of a lateral two-dimensional diluted magnetic semiconductor electron gas under a spatially periodic magnetic field is investigated theoretically. We find that the electron Fermi velocity along the modulation direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Yang , Kai Chang , X. G. Wu , H. Z. Zheng

An attractive feature of magnetic adatoms and molecules for nanoscale applications is their superparamagnetism, the preferred alignment of their spin along an easy axis preventing undesired spin reversal. The underlying magnetic anisotropy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Maciej Misiorny , Michael Hell , Maarten R. Wegewijs

We study spin-polarized quasiparticle transport in a mesoscopic superconductor with a spin- splitting field in the presence of co-flowing supercurrent. In such a system, the nonequilibrium state is characterized by charge, spin, energy and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-01 Faluke Aikebaier , Mihail A. Silaev , T. T. Heikkilä

Spintronic devices typically employ heterostructures with ferromagnets which break time-reversal symmetry and have non-vanishing magnetization. With the growing class of materials that support spin-polarized carriers, current, and…

Molecular spintronics is recognized to as an attractive new research direction in a field of spintronics, following to metallic spintronics and inorganic semiconductor spintronics, and attracts many people in recent decades. The purpose of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Masashi Shiraishi , Tadaaki Ikoma

We describe a spin logic device with controllable magnetization switching of perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnet / heavy metal structures on a ferroelectric (1-x)[Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3]-x[PbTiO3] (PMN-PT) substrate using current-induced…

Recent developments in the magnetization dynamics in spin textures, particularly skyrmions, offer promising new directions for magnetic storage technologies and spintronics. Skyrmions, characterized by their topological protection and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-21 Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Seung-Cheol Lee

We theoretically investigate electron spin injection and spin-polarization sensitive current detection at Schottky contacts between a ferromagnetic metal and an n-type or p-type semiconductor. We use spin-dependent continuity equations and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. D. Albrecht , D. L. Smith

A novel magnetoresistance effect, due to the injection of a spin-polarized electron current from a dilute magnetic into a non-magnetic semiconductor, is presented. The effect results from the suppression of a spin channel in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Schmidt , G. Richter , P. Grabs , C. Gould , D. Ferrand , L. W. Molenkamp

We propose an intrinsic nonlinear spin Hall effect, which enables the generation of collinearly-polarized spin current in a large class of nonmagnetic materials with the corresponding linear response being symmetry-forbidden. This opens a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Hui Wang , Huiying Liu , Xukun Feng , Jin Cao , Weikang Wu , Shen Lai , Weibo Gao , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

A theory of resonant spin-dependent tunneling has been developed for symmetrical double-barrier structures grown of non-centrosymmetrical semiconductors. The dependence of the tunneling transparency on the spin orientation and the wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. M. Glazov , P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Odnoblyudov , V. M. Chistyakov , S. A. Tarasenko , I. N. Yassievich

Spintronics is a field of electronics based on using the electron spin instead of its charge. The recent advance in the manipulation of pure spin currents, i.e. angular momentum transfer not associated to conventional charge currents, has…