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We report an all-electric integrable electron focusing lens in n-type GaAs. It is shown that a pronounced focusing peak takes place when the focal point aligns with an on-chip detector. The intensity and full width half maximum (FWHM) of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Chengyu Yan , Michael Pepper , Patrick See , Ian Farrer , David Ritchie , Jonathan Griffiths

We report selective injection of both spin-up and spin-down single electrons into a quantum dot (QD) from spin-polarized non-equilibrium quantum Hall edge channels (ECs) generated by selective transmission of spin-resolved ECs using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Haruki Kiyama , Takashi Nakajima , Soichiro Teraoka , Akira Oiwa , Seigo Tarucha

Spin-momentum locking in the surface mode of topological insulators (TI) leads to the surface accumulation of spin-polarized electrons caused by bias current flows through TI samples. Here, we demonstrate that scanning tunneling microscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 S. Tyagi , M. Dreyer , D. Bowen , D. Hinkel , P. J. Taylor , A. L. Friedman , R. E. Butera , C. Krafft , I. Mayergoyz

We present a proposal for a fully electrically controllable quantum dot based spin current injector. The device consists of a quantum dot that is strongly coupled to a ferromagnetic electrode on one side and weakly coupled to a nonmagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-23 Szabolcs Csonka , Ireneusz Weymann , Gergely Zarand

We present measurements of electromagnetically induced transparency with an ensemble of donor- bound electrons in low-doped n-GaAs. We used optical transitions from the Zeeman-split electron spin states to a bound trion state in samples…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-11 Maksym Sladkov , A. U. Chaubal , M. P. Bakker , A. R. Onur , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , C. H. van der Wal

Electron spin coherence is induced via light-hole transitions in a quantum well waveguide without either an external or internal DC magnetic field. In the absence of spin precession, the induced spin coherence is detected through effects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Susanta Sarkar , Phedon Palinginis , Hailin Wang , Pei-Cheng Ku , Connie J. Chang-Hasnain , N. H. Kwong , R. Binder

We investigate real-time dynamics of spin-polarized current in a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads in both parallel and antiparallel alignments. While an external bias voltage is taken constant in time, a gate terminal,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-22 Fabricio M. Souza , Thiago L. Carrara , E. Vernek

An efficient electrical spin injection into an InGaAs/GaAs quantum well light emitting diode is demonstrated thanks to a CoFeB/MgO spin injector. The textured MgO tunnel barrier is fabricated by two different techniques: sputtering and…

In this letter, we report on successful electrical spin injection and detection in \textit{n}-type germanium-on-insulator (GOI) using a Co/Py/Al$_{2}$O$_{3}$ spin injector and 3-terminal non-local measurements. We observe an enhanced spin…

We performed measurements of Py/Cu and Py/Ag lateral spin valves as function of injection current direction and magnitude. Above a 'critical' current, there is an unexpected dependence of spin injection on current direction. Positive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-16 Mikhail Erekhinsky , Fèlix Casanova , Ivan K. Schuller , Amos Sharoni

We report electrical measurements of the current-induced spin polarization of the surface current in topological insulator devices where contributions from bulk and surface conduction can be disen- tangled by electrical gating. The devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Joon Sue Lee , Anthony Richardella , Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey , K. Andre Mkhoyan , Nitin Samarth

Analyzing spin transport of quasi-2D electrons gas moving through a semiconductor wave guide subject to a sectionally homogeneous tilted magnetic field, we found well-defined selection rules for resonant and antiresonant spin carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. L. Cardoso , P. Pereyra

We show how the quantum Hall effect in an inverted-gap semiconductor (with electron- and hole-like states at the conduction- and valence-band edges interchanged) can be used to inject, precess, and detect the electron spin along a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-24 A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. Groth , J. Tworzydlo , C. W. J. Beenakker

We propose an entanglement detector composed of two quantum spin Hall insulators and a side gate deposited on one of the edge channels. For an ac gate voltage, the differential noise contributed from the entangled electron pairs exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Wei Chen , Z. D. Wang , R. Shen , D. Y. Xing

We demonstrate room-temperature spin-polarized ultrafast ($\sim$10 ps) lasing in a highly optically excited GaAs microcavity. This microcavity is embedded with InGaAs multiple quantum wells in which the spin relaxation time is less than 10…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-22 Feng-kuo Hsu , Wei Xie , Yi-Shan Lee , Sheng-Di Lin , Chih-Wei Lai

In a bulk GaAs crystal, an unusual magnetoresistance effect, which takes place when a spin-polarized current flows through the sample, was detected. Under conditions of optical pumping of electron spins, an external magnetic field directed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 M. D. Ragoza , N. V. Kozyrev , S. V. Nekrasov , B. R. Namozov , Yu. G. Kusrayev , N. Bart , A. Ludwig , A. D. Wieck

In a recent Letter Hammar et al. claim the observation of injection of a spin-polarized current in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). This is an important observation, since, despite considerable effort of several groups, all attempts…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 B. J. van Wees

The electron spin is emerging as a new powerful tool in the electronics and optics industries. Many proposed applications involve the creation of spin currents, which so far have proven to be difficult to produce in semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. A. Fertig

Whereas spintronics brings the spin degree of freedom to electronic devices, molecular/organic electronics adds the opportunity to play with the chemical versatility. Here we show how, as a contender to commonly used inorganic materials,…

Electrical generation of polarized spins in nonmagnetic materials is of great interest for the underlying physics and device potential. One such mechanism is chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), with which structural chirality leads…