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The band structure of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with valence band edges at different locations in the momentum space could be harnessed to build devices that operate relying on the valley degree of freedom. To realize such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-06 Oriol Lopez Sanchez , Dmitry Ovchinnikov , Shikhar Misra , Adrien Allain , Andras Kis

Ferromagnetic semiconductors play a crucial role in spintronic devices, enabling effective control of electron spin over charge. This study explores their unique properties, ongoing advancements in spin control, and potential integration…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Nazmul Hasan

The inductance of spintronic devices that transport charge neutral spin currents is discussed. It is known that in a media that contains charge neutral spins, a time-varying electric field induces a spin current. We show that since the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Wei Chen

Electrical generation and transduction of polarized electron spins in semiconductors are of central interest in spintronics and quantum information science. While spin generation in semiconductors has been frequently realized via electrical…

Injecting spin-polarized carriers into semiconductor lasers provides important opportunities to extend what is known about spintronic devices, as well as to overcome many limitations of conventional (spin-unpolarized) lasers. By developing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-27 Paulo E. Faria Junior , Gaofeng Xu , Jeongsu Lee , Nils C. Gerhardt , Guilherme M. Sipahi , Igor Žutić

We theoretically predict a generation of a current in Weyl semimetals by applying circularly polarized light. The electric field of the light can drive an effective magnetic field of order of ten Tesla. For lower frequency light, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-18 Katsuhisa Taguchi , Tatsushi Imaeda , Masatoshi Sato , Yukio Tanaka

The stable precession region in the spintronic oscillator with an in-plane magnetic tunnel junction is very narrow under small external fields, restricting its applications such as for microwave generators. Here we show that this region can…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Zhu Zhifeng , Deng Jiefang , Fong Xuanyao , Liang Gengchiau

Flexible manipulation of terahertz-wave polarization during the generation process is very important for terahertz applications, especially for the next-generation on-chip functional terahertz sources. However, current terahertz emitters…

Spintronic devices as alternatives to traditional semiconductor-based electronic devices attract considerable interest as they offer zero quiescent power, built-in memory, scalability, and reconfigurability. To realize spintronic logic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-04 Seung-heon Chris Baek , Kyung-Woong Park , Deok-Sin Kil , Kyung-Jin Lee , Byong-Guk Park

Access to the electron spin is at the heart of many protocols for integrated and distributed quantum-information processing [1-4]. For instance, interfacing the spin-state of an electron and a photon can be utilized to perform quantum gates…

We consider "shuttling" of spin-polarized electrons between two magnetic electrodes (half-metals) by a movable dot with a single electronic level. If the magnetization of the electrodes is antiparallel we show that the transmittance of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Y. Gorelik , S. I. Kulinich , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson , V. M. Vinokur

The electrical control of pure spin current remains a central challenge in spintronics, particularly in time-reversal symmetric systems composed of nonmagnetic elements, where spin and electric fields interact only indirectly. In this work,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Yaqing Yang , Zhen Zhang , Liwen Zhang , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia , Jun Chen , Lei Zhang

Bio-inspired hardware holds the promise of low-energy, intelligent and highly adaptable computing systems. Applications span from automatic classification for big data management, through unmanned vehicle control, to control for bio-medical…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-07-18 Julie Grollier , Damien Querlioz , Mark D. Stiles

The synergy of ferroicity with altermagnetism offers a novel platform for designing multifunctional altermagnetic-spintronic device technology. In this work, we propose a mechanism to achieve nonvolatile electrical manipulation of spin and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-12 Rui Peng , Guangxu Su , Yangyang Fan , Jiaan Li , Fanxin Liu , Yee Sin Ang

The emerging field of valleytronics harnesses the valley degree of freedom of electrons, akin to how electronic and spintronic devices utilize the charge and spin degrees of freedom of electrons respectively. The engineering of valleytronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Kok Wai Lee , Pei-Hao Fu , Jun-Feng Liu , Ching Hua Lee , Yee Sin Ang

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…

Electronic spin current is convertible to magnonic spin current via the creation or annihilation of thermal magnons at the interface of a magnetic insulator and a metal with a strong spin-orbital coupling. So far this phenomenon was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Xi-guang Wang , Zhi-xiong Li , Zhen-wei Zhou , Yao-zhuang Nie , Qing-lin Xia , Zhong-ming Zeng , L. Chotorlishvili , J. Berakdar , Guang-hua Guo

Full electric-field control of spin orientations is one of the key tasks in semiconductor spintronics. We demonstrate that electric field pulses can be utilized for phase-coherent +/- pi spin rotation of optically generated electron spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-10-05 S. Kuhlen , K. Schmalbuch , M. Hagedorn , P. Schlammes , M. Patt , M. Lepsa , G. Güntherodt , B. Beschoten

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

Semiconductor spin lasers are distinguished from their conventional counterparts by the presence of spin-polarized carriers. The transfer of angular momentum of the spin-polarized carriers to photons provides important opportunities for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Gaofeng Xu , David Cao , Velimir Labinac , Igor Žutić