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A novel scheme for spin filters is proposed by studying the coherent transport of electrons through the quantum wires with lateral magnetic modulations. Unlike other schemes in the literature, the modulation in our scheme is much weaker…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Zhou , Q. W. Shi , M. W. Wu

We consider a zigzag nanoribbon of MoS2 and study its spin-dependent conductance and spin-polarization in presence (absent) of an external electric field. The field is not only perpendicular to the molybdenum plane (called vertical field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-05 Hamidreza Simchi , Mahdi Esmaeilzadeh , Hossein Mazidabadi , Mohammad Norouzi

An electrical current can transfer spin angular momentum to a ferromagnet. This novel physical phenomenon, called spin transfer, offers unprecedented spatial and temporal control over the magnetic state of a ferromagnet and has tremendous…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Wei , A. Sharma , A. S. Nunez , P. M. Haney , R. A. Duine , J. Bass , A. H. MacDonald , M. Tsoi

Modern electronic devices utilize charge to transmit and store information. This leaves the information susceptible to external influences, such as radiation, that can introduce short timescale charge fluctuations and, long term, degrade…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Brennan C. Pursley , Xinlin Song , R. O. Torres-Isea , Eiman A. Bokari , Asghar Kayani , Vanessa Sih

It is predicted that certain atomically ordered interfaces between some ferromagnetic metals (F) and semiconductors (S) should act as ideal spin filters that transmit electrons only from the majority spin bands or only from the minority…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 George Kirczenow

The increasing demand for higher data volume and faster transmission in modern wireless telecommunication systems has elevated requirements for 5G high-band RF hardware. Spin-Wave technology offers a promising solution, but its adoption is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Florian Bruckner , Kristýna Davídková , Claas Abert , Andrii Chumak , Dieter Suess

A spin wave majority fork-like structure with feature size of 40\,nm, is presented and investigated, through micromagnetic simulations. The structure consists of three merging out-of-plane magnetization spin wave buses and four…

We experimentally investigate frequency-selective spin wave (SW) transmission in a micrometre-scale, ring-shaped magnonic resonator integrated with a linear Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) stripe. Using super-Nyquist-sampling magneto-optical Kerr…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Franz Vilsmeier , Takuya Taniguchi , Michael Lindner , Christian Riedel , Christian Back

Using a `standard' NMR spin-echo technique we determined the spin polarization of two-dimensional electrons, confined to GaAs quantum wells, from the hyperfine shift of Ga nuclei in the wells. Concentrating on the temperature and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Melinte , N. Freytag , M. Horvatic , C. Berthier , L. P. Levy , V. Bayot , M. Shayegan

Spin-polarized two-dimensional materials with large and tunable spin-splitting energy promise the field of 2D spintronics. While graphene has been a canonical 2D material, its spin properties and tunability are limited. Here, we demonstrate…

Spin-dependent transport through an endohedral fullerene Co@C$_{60}$ dimer with gold electrodes is explored theoretically using density functional and extended H\"{u}ckel theory. Density of states spin polarizations up to 95%, due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-01 Alireza Saffarzadeh , George Kirczenow

Within the field of spintronics major efforts are directed towards developing applications for spin-based transport devices made fully out of two-dimensional (2D) materials. In this work we present an experimental realization of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Alexey A. Kaverzin , Talieh S. Ghiasi , Avalon H. Dismukes , Xavier Roy , Bart J. van Wees

Spin transfer torque nano-oscillators are potential candidates for replacing the traditional inductor based voltage controlled oscillators in modern communication devices. Typical oscillator designs are based on trilayer magnetic tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Abhishek Sharma , Ashwin A Tulapurkar , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

Spin-orbit (SO) interaction critically influences electron spin dynamics and spin transport in bulk semiconductors and semiconductor microstructures. This interaction couples electron spin to dc and ac electric fields. Spin coupling to ac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Emmanuel I. Rashba

We investigate the lateral displacements for ballistic electron beams in a two-dimensional electron gas modulated by metallic ferromagnetic (FM) stripes with parallel and antiparallel (AP) magnetization configurations. It is shown that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Xi Chen , Chun-Fang Li , Yue Ban

Momentum-resolved spin-polarized bands are a key ingredient in many proposed spintronic devices, but their existence often relies on lattice commensurability or strong spin-orbit coupling. By a large-scale DFT calculation (up to 4212…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-13 Zhigang Song , Xiuying Zhang , Julian Klein , Jonathan Curtis , Frances M. Ross , Prineha Narang

The theoretical possibility to use an electron microscope as a spin polarizer is studied. It turns out that a Bessel beam passing a standard magnetic objective lens is intrinsically spin polarized. In the limit of infinitely small detectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Peter Schattschneider , Vincenzo Grillo

All-electric-controlled nonvolatile spin field-effect transistors (SFETs) based on two-dimensional (2D) multiferroic van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures hold great promise for advanced spintronics applications. However, their performance…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-02 B. Liu , X. Zhang , W. Hou , H. Feng , Zhengei Dai , Zhi-Xin Guo

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

Since Felix Bloch's introduction of the concept of spin waves in 1930, magnons (the quanta of spin waves) have been extensively studied in a range of materials for spintronics, particularly for non-volatile logic-in-memory devices.…