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The electron transport in the two-dimensional gas formed in tensile-strained Si1-xGex/Si/Si1-xGex heterostructures is investigated using Monte Carlo simulation. At first the electron mobility is studied in ungated modulation doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Monsef , P. Dollfus , S. Galdin-Retailleau , H. -J. Herzog , T. Hackbarth

We show that the electric field-induced thermal asymmetry between the electron and lattice systems in pure silicon substantially impacts the identity of the dominant spin relaxation mechanism. Comparison of empirical results from…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-04-10 Jing Li , Lan Qing , Hanan Dery , Ian Appelbaum

We present a study of spin transport in charge and spin inhomogeneous semiconductor systems. In particular, we investigate the propagation of spin-polarized electrons through a boundary between two semiconductor regions with different…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan Csontos , Sergio E. Ulloa

We investigate spin polarized electron transport in ultra-thin Si-Core/Ge-Shell and Ge-Core/Si-Shell nanowire system using semi-classical Monte Carlo simulation method. Depolarization of electron's spin occurs in nanowire mainly due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Bhupesh Bishnoi , Bahniman Ghosh

Spin transport properties of graphene non-local spin valve devices are typically determined from Hanle spin precession measurements by using a simplified solution of the one-dimensional Bloch-Torrey equation which assumes infinitely long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Marc Drögeler , Frank Volmer , Christoph Stampfer , Bernd Beschoten

We report electrical spin injection and detection in degenerately doped n-type Ge channels using Mn5Ge3C0.8/Al2O3/n^{+}-Ge tunneling contacts for spin injection and detection. The whole structure is integrated on a Si wafer for…

A hybrid ferromagnet/semiconductor device is used to determine a lower bound on the spin lifetime for conduction electrons in silicon. We use spin precession to self-consistently measure the drift velocity vs. drift field of spin-polarized…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Biqin Huang , Douwe J. Monsma , Ian Appelbaum

We address the ballistic transmission of charge carriers across ordered line defects in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. Our study reveals the presence of a transport gap driven by spin-orbit interactions, spin and valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-23 Artem Pulkin , Oleg V. Yazyev

Spin-dependent transport through an interacting single-level quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads with non-collinear magnetizations is analyzed theoretically. The transport properties and average spin of the dot are investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Rudzinski , J. Barnas , R. Swirkowicz , M. Wilczynski

A longitudinal electric field is used to control the transit time (through an undoped silicon vertical channel) of spin-polarized electrons precessing in a perpendicular magnetic field. Since an applied voltage determines the final spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Biqin Huang , Douwe J. Monsma , Ian Appelbaum

A method for Monte Carlo simulation of 2D spin-polarized electron transport in III-V semiconductor heterojunction FETs is presented. In the simulation, the dynamics of the electrons in coordinate and momentum space is treated…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-12 Min Shen , Semion Saikin , Ming-C. Cheng , Vladimir Privman

We demonstrate a nonlinear Hall effect due to the boundary spin accumulation in Pt films grown on Al2O3 substrates. This Hall effect and the previously demonstrated Hanle magnetoresistance provide a complete picture of the spin-precession…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-25 Jing Li , Andrew H. Comstock , Dali Sun , Xiaoshan Xu

The wide bandgap semiconductor ZnO is interesting for spintronic applications because of its small spin-orbit coupling implying a large spin coherence length. Utilizing vertical spin valve devices with ferromagnetic electrodes…

We present measurements of pure spin current absorption on lateral spin valves. By varying the width of the absorber we demonstrate that spin current absorption measurements enable to characterize efficiently the spin transport properties…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-05 G. Zahnd , Laurent Vila , V. Pham , M Cosset-Cheneau , W Lim , A Brenac , P Laczkowski , A Marty , J Attané

We present a study of the effects of inelastic scattering on the transport properties of various nanoscale devices, namely H$_2$ molecules sandwiched between Pt contacts, and a spin-valve made by an organic molecule attached to model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Jean , S. Sanvito

We derive a drift-diffusion equation for spin polarization in semiconductors by consistently taking into account electric-field effects and nondegenerate electron statistics. We identify a high-field diffusive regime which has no analogue…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Yu , M. E. Flatte

There has been an intense search in recent years for long-lived spin-polarized carriers for spintronic and quantum-computing devices. Here we report that spin polarized quasi-particles in superconducting aluminum layers have surprisingly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-17 Hyunsoo Yang , See-Hun Yang , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa , Stuart S. P. Parkin

Using four-terminal nonlocal magnetoresistance measurements in lateral spin-valve devices with Si$_{\rm 0.1}$Ge$_{\rm 0.9}$, we study pure spin current transport in a degenerate SiGe alloy ($n \sim$ 5.0 $\times$ 10$^{18}$ cm$^{-3}$). Clear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 T. Naito , M. Yamada , M. Tsukahara , S. Yamada , K. Sawano , K. Hamaya

We simulate the electron transport in vertical bi-layer nanowire which can be fabricated in molecular beam epitaxy process with lateral confinement potential formed by means of cleaved overgrowth or surface oxidization methods giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 T. Chwiej

The precession of electron spins in a perpendicular magnetic field, the so called Hanle effect, provides an unique insight into spin properties of a non-magnetic material. In practice, the spin signal is fitted to the analytic solution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-24 M. Wojtaszek , I. J. Vera-Marun , B. J. van Wees