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In this letter, we show efficient electrical spin injection into a SiGe based \textit{p-i-n} light emitting diode from the remanent state of a perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic contact. Electron spin injection is carried out through…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Grenet , M. Jamet , P. Noé , V. Calvo , J. -M. Hartmann , L. E. Nistor , B. Rodmacq , S. Auffret , P. Warin , Y. Samson

The spin Hall effect (SHE) is a generation of spin polarization for moving spin carriers in materials under an external electric field and has been observed in semiconductors, metals, and insulators at or below room temperature. Recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Baochi Fu , Longgang Pang , Huichao Song , Yi Yin

We have demonstrated the electrical generation and detection of spin polarization by the spin Hall effect (SHE) in platinum. The experiment was performed in a non-local geometry without the use of ferromagnetic materials or magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-11 Chee Weng Koong , Berthold-Georg Englert , Christian Miniatura , N. Chandrasekhar

We study the transverse spin-Seebeck effect (SSE) on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator (TI) thin film, such as Bi$_2$Se$_3$, which is sandwiched between two normal metal leads. The temperature bias $\Delta T$ applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Po-Hao Chang , Farzad Mahfouzi , Naoto Nagaosa , Branislav K. Nikolic

An inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) in n-type silicon was observed experimentally when conduction electrons were scattered on the spin-orbit potential of bismuth. The spin current in the silicon layer was generated by excitation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 A. A. Ezhevskii , D. V. Guseinov , A. V. Soukhorukov , A. V. Novikov , D. V. Yurasov , N. S. Gusev

We propose a spintronic device to generate spin polarization in a mesoscopic region by purely electric means. We show that the spin Hall effect in combination with the stirring effect are sufficient to induce measurable spin polarization in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-27 Yu. V. Pershin , N. A. Sinitsyn , A. Kogan , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith

In this paper we theoretically investigate the photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) of a Gaussian beam reflected from the interface between air and topological insulators (TIs). The photonic SHE is attributed to spin-orbit coupling and manifests…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Xinxing Zhou , Jin Zhang , Xiaohui Ling , Shizhen Chen , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

We propose an optical means to realize a spin hall effect (SHE) in neutral atomic system by coupling the internal spin states of atoms to radiation. The interaction between the external optical fields and the atoms creates effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Xiong-Jun Liu , Xin Liu , L. C. Kwek , C. H. Oh

We report the experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional (2D) hole system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The 2D hole layer is a part of a p-n junction light-emitting diode with a specially designed co-planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Joerg Wunderlich , Bernd Kaestner , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

We develop a geometric photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) which manifests as spin-dependent shift in momentum space. It originates from an effective space-variant Pancharatnam-Berry (PB) phase created by artificially engineering the…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-04 Xiaohui Ling , Xinxing Zhou , Xunong Yi , Hailu Luo , Shuangchun Wen

The controlled generation of localized spin densities is a key enabler of semiconductor spintronics In this work, we study spin Hall effect induced edge spin accumulation in a two-dimensional hole gas with strong spin orbit interactions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Nomura , J. Wunderlich , Jairo Sinova , B. Kaestner , A. H. MacDonald , T. Jungwirth

The photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE), a result of spin-orbit interaction, has attracted significant interest because of its fundamental importance and potential applications. Optical losses are ubiquitous, which inherently suppress the…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-09 Kezhou Du , Aizaz Khan , Lei Gao , Muzamil Shah , Xinxing Zhou , Dongliang Gao

Efficient detection of spin-charge conversion is crucial for advancing our understanding of emergent phenomena in spin-orbit-coupled nanostructures. Here, we provide proof of principle of an electrical detection scheme of spin-charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Stuart A. Cavill , Chunli Huang , Manuel Offidani , Yu-Hsuan Lin , Miguel A. Cazalilla , Aires Ferreira

The spin Hall effect of light (SHEL), which refers to a spin-dependent and transverse splitting at refraction and reflection phenomena, inherently depends on the polarization states of the incidence. Most of the previous research have…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-25 Minkyung Kim , Dasol Lee , Junsuk Rho

We report the first electrical manipulation and detection of the mesoscopic intrinsic spin-Hall effect (ISHE) in semiconductors through non-local electrical measurement in nano-scale H-shaped structures built on high mobility HgTe/HgCdTe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-22 C. Bruene , A. Roth , E. G. Novik , M. Koenig , H. Buhmann , E. M. Hankiewicz , W. Hanke , J. Sinova , L. W. Molenkamp

We theoretically investigate an extrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE) in semiconductor heterostructures due to the scattering by an artificial potential created by antidot, STM tip, etc. The potential is electrically tunable. First, we formulate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mikio Eto , Tomohiro Yokoyama

Direct visualizations of spin accumulation due to the enhanced spin Hall effect (SHE) in bismuth (Bi) - doped silicon (Si) at room temperature are realized by using helicity-dependent photovoltage (HDP) measurements. Under application of a…

We propose a theoretical model to obtain the photonic spin Hall effect (SHE) in an optomechanical nanocavity using a graphene bilayer as the intracavity medium. In our model, the pump and probe fields coherently drive the first mirror,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Muqaddar Abbas , Muhammad Awais Altaf , Pei Zhang , Muhammad Waseem

Studies of spin manipulation in semiconductors has benefited from the possibility to grow these materials in high quality on top of optically active III-V systems. The induced electroluminescence in these layered semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Kaestner , J. Wunderlich , Jairo Sinova , T. Jungwirth

The electrical injection of spin polarized electrons in a semiconductor can be achieved in principle by driving a current from a ferromagnetic metal, where current is known to be significantly spin polarized, into the semiconductor via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. T. Filip , B. H. Hoving , F. J. Jedema , B. J. van Wees