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An electric current from a ferromagnet into a non-magnetic material can induce a spin-dependent electron temperature. Here it is shown that this spin heat accumulation, when created by tunneling from a ferromagnet, produces a non-negligible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 I. J. Vera-Marun , B. J. van Wees , R. Jansen

We investigate theoretically electrical spin injection at a Schottky contact between a spin-polarized electrode and a non-magnetic semiconductor. Current and electron density spin-polarizations are discussed as functions of barrier energy…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. D. Albrecht , D. L. Smith

We report room temperature electrical detection of spin injection from a ferromagnetic insulator (YIG) into a ferromagnetic metal (Permalloy, Py). Non-equilibrium spins with both static and precessional spin polarizations are dynamically…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-12 P. Hyde , Lihui Bai , D. M. J. Kumar , B. W. Southern , S. Y. Huang , B. F. Miao , C. L. Chien , C. -M. Hu

We present a study of the transport properties of thermally generated spin currents in an insulating ferrimagnetic-antiferromagnetic-ferrimagnetic trilayer over a wide range of temperature. Spin currents generated by the spin Seebeck effect…

While the helical character of the edge channels responsible for charge transport in the quantum spin Hall regime of a two-dimensional topological insulator is by now well established, an experimental confirmation that the transport in the…

Spintronics involves the development of low-dimensional electronic systems with potential use in quantum-based computation. In graphene, there has been significant progress in improving spin transport characteristics by encapsulation and…

Further development of the field of all-electric spintronics requires the successful integration of spin transport channels with spin injector/generator elements. While with the advent of graphene and related 2D materials high performance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Kristina Vaklinova , Alexander Hoyer , Marko Burghard , Klaus Kern

We propose a method for all-electrical initialization, control and readout of the spin of single ions substituted into a semiconductor. Mn ions in GaAs form a natural example. In the ion's ground state the Mn core spin magnetic moment locks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Ming Tang , Jeremy Levy , Michael E. Flatte

Electrical spin injection from Fe into Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As quantum well heterostructures is demonstrated in small (< 500 Oe) in-plane magnetic fields. The measurement is sensitive only to the component of the spin that precesses about the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Strand , B. D. Schultz , A. F. Isakovic , C. J. Palmstrom , P. A. Crowell

We report large enhancement of thermally injected spin current in normal metal (NM)/antiferromagnet(AF)/yttrium iron garnet(YIG), where a thin AF insulating layer of NiO or CoO can enhance spin current from YIG to a NM by up to a factor of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-25 Weiwei Lin , Kai Chen , Shufeng Zhang , C. L. Chien

We report a study of the spin-to-charge current conversion in compressively strained Ge1-xSnx alloy epilayers as a function of the Sn concentration by means of the inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE). The spin current is generated by…

Spin injection and detection in silicon is a difficult problem, in part because the weak spin-orbit coupling and indirect gap preclude using standard optical techniques. We propose two ways to overcome this difficulty, and illustrate their…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , Steven C. Erwin

The spin injection and accumulation in metallic lateral spin valves with transparent interfaces is studied using d.c. injection current. Unlike a.c.-based techniques, this allows investigating the effects of the direction and magnitude of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-12 Fèlix Casanova , Amos Sharoni , Mikhail Erekhinsky , Ivan K. Schuller

We treat the spin injection and extraction via a ferromagnetic metal/semiconductor Schottky barrier as a quantum scattering problem. This enables the theory to explain a number of phenomena involving spin-dependent current through the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-20 L. Cywinski , H. Dery , P. Dalal , L. J. Sham

Herein, we reported giant tunability of the physical properties of 2DEGs at the spinel/perovskite interface of {\gamma}-Al2O3/SrTiO3 (GAO/STO). By modulating the carrier density thus the band filling with ionic-liquid gating, the system…

We reported the first spin potentiometric measurement to electrically detect spin polarization arising from spin-momentum locking in topological insulator (TI) surface states using ferromagnet/tunnel barrier contacts [1]. This method has…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-19 C. H. Li , O. M. J. van t Erve , S. Rajput , L. Li , B. T. Jonker

We discuss a three-dimensional (3D) spin drift diffusion (SDD) model to inject spin from a ferromagnet (FM) to a normal metal (N) or semiconductor (SC). Using this model we investigate the problem of spin injection into isotropic materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-29 Juzar Thingna , Jian-Sheng Wang

We propose a new method of direct detection of spin accumulation, which overcomes problems of previous measurement schemes. A spin dependent current in a single-electron transistor with ferromagnetic electrodes leads to spin accumulation on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Jan Martinek , Józef Barnas , Sadamichi Maekawa , Herbert Schoeller , Gerd Schön

We demonstrate electrical spin injection into multilayer graphene (MLG) in a lateral spin valve device from a highly spin-polarized Co2FeSi (CFS) Huesler electrode. Exfoliated MLG was transferred onto pre-patterned epitaxial CFS wires grown…

Spin injection from Co70Fe30 and Fe contacts into bulk GaAs(001) epilayers is studied experimentally. Using nonlocal measurements, the spin polarization of the differential conductance is determined as a function of the bias voltage applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Salis , S. F. Alvarado , A. Fuhrer