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We report nearly complete preservation of "spin memory" between optical absorption and photoluminescence (PL) in nanometer slabs of GaSe pumped with 0.2 eV excess energy. At cryogenic temperatures, the initial degree of circular…

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Inter-band photo-excitation of electron states with the twisted photons in GaAs, a direct band-gap bulk semiconductor, is considered theoretically. Assuming linearity of the quantum transition amplitudes and applying Wigner-Eckart theorem,…

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Spintronic applications require an efficient injection of spin-polarized carriers. We study the maximally achievable spin polarization in InAs quantum dots in a vertical-cavity gain structure to be used in telecoms-wavelength…

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We study the charge and spin-dependent thermoelectric response of a ferromagnetic helical system irradiated by arbitrarily polarized light, using a tight-binding framework and the Floquet-Bloch formalism. Transport properties for individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Sudin Ganguly , Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti

The optical injection of charge and spin currents are investigated in Ge$_{1-x}$Sn$_{x}$ semiconductors as a function of Sn content. These emerging silicon-compatible materials enable the modulation of these processes across the entire…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-03 Gabriel Fettu , John E. Sipe , Oussama Moutanabbir

The unique combination of outstanding optical quality and attractive spin properties opens new avenues for optical spin control in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors. Using the optically detected magnetic resonance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Rongrong Hu , Sergey R. Meliakov , Dmitri R. Yakovlev , Bekir Turedi , Maksym V. Kovalenko , Manfred Bayer , Vasilii V. Belykh

Topological insulators are characterized by Dirac cone surface states with electron spins aligned in the surface plane and perpendicular to their momenta. Recent theoretical and experimental work implied that this specific spin texture…

The generation of an out-of-equilibrium population of spin-polarized carriers is a keystone process for quantum technologies and spintronics alike. It can be achieved through the so-called optical spin orientation by exciting the material…

Electrical spin injection from the Heusler alloy Co_2MnGe into a p-i-n Al_0.1Ga_0.9As/GaAs light emitting diode is demonstrated. A maximum steady-state spin polarization of approximately 13% at 2 K is measured in two types of…

The polarization controlled optical signal routing has many important applications in photonics such as polarization beam splitter. By using two-dimensional transmission lines with lumped elements, we experimentally demonstrate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Zhiwei Guo , Haitao Jiang , Yang Long , Kun Yu , Jie Ren , Chunhua Xue , Hong Chen

We have studied the spin transport and the spin Hall effect as a function of temperature for platinum (Pt) and gold (Au) in lateral spin valve structures. First, by using the spin absorption technique, we extract the spin diffusion length…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-19 Miren Isasa , Estitxu Villamor , Luis E. Hueso , Martin Gradhand , Fèlix Casanova

We study reflection of optically spin-oriented hot electrons as a means to probe the semiconductor crystal symmetry and its intimate relation with the spin-orbit coupling. The symmetry breaking by reflection manifests itself by tipping the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-09-23 Lan Qing , Yang Song , Hanan Dery

Optical orientation of electron and hole spins by circularly polarized light is investigated for MAPbI$_3$ single crystals. The Hanle and polarization recovery effects measured in transverse and longitudinal magnetic fields, respectively,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Mladen Kotur , Nataliia E. Kopteva , Dmitri R. Yakovlev , Bekir Turedi , Maksym V. Kovalenko , Manfred Bayer

In this article we investigate the surface spin polarization in a 100 nm Co2Cr0.6Fe0.4Al (CCFA) film grown ex situ epitaxially on MgO(100) with a 10 nm Fe buffer layer by means of spin resolved photoemission. We show that a careful in situ…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 M. Cinchetti , J. -P. Wüstenberg , M. Sánchez Albaneda , F. Steeb , A. Conca , M. Jourdan , M. Aeschlimann

On-chip manipulating and controlling the temporal and spatial evolution of light is of crucial importance for information processing in future planar integrated nanophotonics. The spin and orbital angular momentum of light, which can be…

We experimentally investigate the dynamics of a persistent spin helix in etched GaAs wire structures of 2 to 80 um width. Using magneto-optical Kerr rotation with high spatial resolution, we determine the lifetime of the spin helix. A few…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Altmann , M. P. Walser , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , G. Salis

We derive a drift-diffusion equation for spin polarization in semiconductors by consistently taking into account electric-field effects and nondegenerate electron statistics. We identify a high-field diffusive regime which has no analogue…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Yu , M. E. Flatte

We show that the propagation of spin polarized carriers may be dramatically affected by {\em inhomogeneous} electric fields. Surprisingly, the spin diffusion length is found to strongly depend on the sign and magnitude of electric field…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Dan Csontos , Sergio E. Ulloa

New experiment arrangement to study spin rotation and oscillation of particles of gas target through which beam of high energy particles passes is discussed. Such experiment arrangement make it realizable for storage ring and allows to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Vladimir Baryshevsky

We report new measurements of inclusive pion production from frozen-spin HD for polarized photon beams covering the Delta(1232) resonance. These provide data simultaneously on both H and D with nearly complete angular distributions of the…