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Spin transport in non-degenerate semiconductors is expected to pave a way to the creation of spin transistors, spin logic devices and reconfigurable logic circuits, because room temperature (RT) spin transport in Si has already been…

We review our recent work on spin injection, transport and relaxation in graphene. The spin injection and transport in single layer graphene (SLG) were investigated using nonlocal magnetoresistance (MR) measurements. Spin injection was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-13 Wei Han , K. M. McCreary , K. Pi , W. H. Wang , Yan Li , H. Wen , J. R. Chen , R. K. Kawakami

We study spin relaxation in n-type bulk GaAs, due to the Dyakonov--Perel mechanism, using ensemble Monte Carlo methods. Our results confirm that spin relaxation time increases with the electronic density in the regime of moderate electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-19 Gionni Marchetti , Matthew Hodgson , James McHugh , Roy Chantrell , Irene D'Amico

In a recent publication, we demonstrated electrical spin injection and detection in n-type silicon at temperatures up to 500K using ferromagnetic metal / SiO2 tunnel barrier contacts in a three-terminal geometry (Nature Commun. 2:245…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-19 C. H. Li , O. M. J. van 't Erve , B. T. Jonker

Measurements and modeling of electron spin transport and dynamics are used to characterize hyperfine interactions in Fe/GaAs devices with $n$-GaAs channels. Ga and As nuclei are polarized by electrically injected electron spins, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. K. Chan , Q. O. Hu , J. Zhang , T. Kondo , C. J. Palmstrøm , P. A. Crowell

A spin metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistor (spin MOSFET), which combines a Schottky-barrier MOSFET with ferromagnetic source and drain contacts, is a promising device for spintronic logic. Previous simulation studies predict…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-06 Tony Low , Mark S. Lundstrom , Dmitri E. Nikonov

We demonstrate the injection and transport of spin-polarized electrons through n-type doped silicon with in-plane spin-valve and perpendicular magnetic field spin precession and dephasing ("Hanle effect") measurements. A voltage applied…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Hyuk-Jae Jang , Jing Xu , Jing Li , Biqin Huang , Ian Appelbaum

We determine the dynamic magnetization induced in non-magnetic metal wedges composed of silver, copper and platinum by means of Brillouin light scattering (BLS) microscopy. The magnetization is transferred from a ferromagnetic Ni80Fe20…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-07-06 F. Fohr , Y. Fukuma , S. Kaltenborn , L. Wang , J. Hamrle , H. Schultheiß , A. A. Serga , H. C. Schneider , Y. Otani , B. Hillebrands

In this paper, we present a Kane-Mele model in the presence of magnetic field and next nearest neighbors hopping amplitudes for investigations of the spin susceptibilities of Germanene layer. Green's function approach has been implemented…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-23 Farshad Azizi , Hamed Rezania

A recent experiment reports a non-local spin-signal that shows oscillatory behavior as a function of gate voltage when the contacts are magnetized along the direction of current flow, but not when they are magnetized perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-05 A. N. M. Zainuddin , S. Hong , L. Siddiqui , S. Datta

We study the transport of thermally excited non-equilibrium magnons through the ferrimagnetic insulator YIG using two electrically isolated Pt strips as injector and detector. The diffusing magnons induce a non- local inverse spin Hall…

We investigate electron spin relaxation in GaAs in the proximity of a Fe/MgO layer using spin-resolved optical pump-probe spectroscopy, revealing a strong dependence of the spin relaxation time on the strength of an exchange-driven…

We performed spin transport measurements on boron nitride based single layer graphene devices with mobilities up to 40 000 cm${^2}$V$^{-1}$s$^{-1}$. We could observe spin transport over lengths up to 20 {\mu}m at room temperature, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. J. Zomer , M. H. D. Guimarães , N. Tombros , B. J. van Wees

We report on nonlocal transport in superconductor hybrid structures, with ferromagnetic as well as normal-metal tunnel junctions attached to the superconductor. In the presence of a strong Zeeman splitting of the density of states, both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-26 M. J. Wolf , F. Hübler , S. Kolenda , H. v. Löhneysen , D. Beckmann

Germanium-Tin is emerging as a material exhibiting excellent photonic properties. Here we demonstrate optical initialization and readout of spins in this intriguing group IV semiconductor alloy and report on spin quantum beats between…

The relaxation process of electron spin in systems of electrons interacting with piezoelectric deformation phonons that are mediated through spin-orbit interactions was interpreted from a microscopic point of view using the formula for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Nam Lyong Kang

Spin dependent electron transport measurements on graphene are of high importance to explore possible spintronic applications. Up to date all spin transport experiments on graphene were done in a semi-classical regime, disregarding quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 M. H. D. Guimaraes , P. J. Zomer , I. J. Vera-Marun , B. J. van Wees

We study theoretically the spin transport in a nonmagnetic metal connected to ferromagnetic injector and detector electrodes. We derive a general expression for the spin accumulation signal which covers from the metallic to the tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

We report a surprisingly long spin relaxation time of electrons in Mn-doped p-GaAs. The spin relaxation time scales with the optical pumping and increases from 12 ns in the dark to 160 ns upon saturation. This behavior is associated with…

The influence of temperature and transport conditions on the electron spin relaxation in lightly doped n-type GaAs semiconductors is investigated. A Monte Carlo approach is used to simulate electron transport, including the evolution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-20 Stefano Spezia , Dominique Persano Adorno , Nicola Pizzolato , Bernardo Spagnolo