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Optical spin orientation and depolarization phenomena in semiconductors are of overwhelming importance for the development of spin-optoelectronics. In this paper we employ Ge-based spin-photodiodes to investigate the room temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 C. Rinaldi , M. Cantoni , R. Bertacco

We combine extensive precision measurements of the optically detected spin dynamics and magneto-transport measurements in a contiguous set of n-doped bulk GaAs structures in order to unambiguously unravel the intriguing but complex…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-02 J. G. Lonnemann , E. P. Rugeramigabo , M. Oestreich , J. Hübner

Nuclear spin relaxation is studied in n-GaAs thick layers and microcavity samples with different electron densities. We reveal that both in metallic samples where electrons are free and mobile, and in insulating samples, where electrons are…

We theoretically study the nonlocal spin transport in a device consisting of a nonmagnetic metal (N) and ferromagnetic injector (F1) and detector (F2) electrodes connected to N. We solve the spin-dependent transport equations in a device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

Electrical spin injection into semiconductors paves the way for exploring new phenomena in the area of spin physics and new generations of spintronic devices. However the exact role of interface states in spin injection mechanism from a…

Germanium telluride features special spin-electric effects originating from spin-orbit coupling and symmetry breaking by the ferroelectric lattice polarization, which opens up many prospectives for electrically tunable and switchable spin…

The spin diffusion/transport in $n$-type (001) GaAs quantum well at high temperatures ($\ge120$ K) is studied by setting up and numerically solving the kinetic spin Bloch equations together with the Poisson equation self-consistently. All…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu

Manifestations of quantum interference effects in macroscopic objects are rare. Weak localization is one of the few examples of such effects showing up in the electron transport through solid state. Here we show that weak localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 V. V. Belykh , A. Yu. Kuntsevich , M. M. Glazov , K. V. Kavokin , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

Spin transport experiments in graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, indicate spin relaxation times that are significantly shorter than the theoretical predictions. We investigate experimentally whether these short spin relaxation times…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Popinciuc , C. Józsa , P. J. Zomer , N. Tombros , A. Veligura , H. T. Jonkman , B. J. van Wees

A quantitative investigation of spin-pumping-induced spin-transport in n-GaAs was conducted at room temperature (RT). GaAs has a non-negligible spin orbit interaction, so that electromotive force due to the inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Akiyori Yamamoto , Yuichiro Ando , Teruya Shinjo , Tetsuya Uemura , Masashi Shiraishi

Magnons in ferromagnets behave as a viscous fluid over a length scale, the momentum-relaxation length, below which momentum-conserving scattering processes dominate. We show theoretically that in this hydrodynamic regime viscous effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Camilo Ulloa , A. Tomadin , J. Shan , M. Polini , B. J. van Wees , R. A. Duine

Spin accumulation and spin precession in single-layer graphene are studied by non-local spin valve measurements at room temperature. The dependence of the non-local magnetoresistance on electrode spacing is investigated and the results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-20 Wei Han , K. Pi , W. Bao , K. M. McCreary , Yan Li , W. H. Wang , C. N. Lau , R. K. Kawakami

The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) is observed in magnetic insulator|heavy metal bilayers as an inverse spin Hall effect voltage under a temperature gradient. The SSE can be detected nonlocally as well, viz. in terms of the voltage in a second…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 L. J. Cornelissen , K. Oyanagi , T. Kikkawa , Z. Qiu , T. Kuschel , G. E. W. Bauer , B. J. van Wees , E. Saitoh

Inelastic neutron scattering was used to study the low energy magnetic excitations of the ferromagnetic superconductor UGe$_{2}$. The ferromagnetic fluctuations are of Ising nature with a non-conserved magnetization and have an intermediate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Raymond , A. Huxley

We report the observation of magnon spin currents generated by the Spin Seebeck effect (SSE) in a bulk single crystal of the easy-plane antiferromagnet NiO. A magnetic field induces a non-degeneracy and thereby an imbalance in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Geert R. Hoogeboom , Bart J. van Wees

We studied the nonlocal transport behavior of both electrically and thermally excited magnons in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) as a function of its thickness. For electrically injected magnons, the nonlocal signals decrease monotonically as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Juan Shan , Ludo J. Cornelissen , Nynke Vlietstra , Jamal Ben Youssef , Timo Kuschel , Rembert A. Duine , Bart J. van Wees

We have studied thermally driven magnon spin transport (spin Seebeck effect, SSE) in heterostructures of antiferromagnetic $\alpha$-$\mathrm{Cr_2O_3}$ and Pt at low temperatures. Monitoring the amplitude of the local and nonlocal SSE…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-26 Prasanta Muduli , Richard Schlitz , Tobias Kosub , René Hübner , Artur Erbe , Denys Makarov , Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein

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

We study the effect of the impurity density on lifetimes and relaxation lengths of electron spins in the presence of a static electric field in a n-type GaAs bulk. The transport of electrons and the spin dynamics are simulated by using a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-06-19 Stefano Spezia , Dominique Persano Adorno , Nicola Pizzolato , Bernardo Spagnolo

The spin diffusion length for thermally excited magnon spins is measured by utilizing a non-local spin-Seebeck effect measurement. In a bulk single crystal of yttrium iron garnet (YIG) a focused laser thermally excites magnon spins. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-15 Brandon L. Giles , Zihao Yang , John Jamison , Roberto C. Myers