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We have investigated the effect of the gate voltage on spin relaxation in an Al0.3Ga0.7As/GaAs/Al0.3Ga0.7As heterostructure. The study is motivated by a recent proposal for a non-ballistic spin field effect transistor that utilizes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ehud Shafir , Min Shen , Semion Saikin

We report spin amplification using a capacitive beam splitter in n-type GaAs where the spin polarization is monitored via transverse electron focusing measurement. It is shown that partially spin-polarized current injected by the emitter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Chengyu Yan , Sanjeev Kumar , Kalarikad Thomas , Patrick See , Ian Farrer , David Ritchie , Jonathan Griffiths , Geraint Jones , Michael Pepper

We study the magnon spin transport in the magnetic insulator yttrium iron garnet (YIG) in a nonlocal experiment and compare the magnon spin excitation and detection for the heavy metal paramagnetic electrodes platinum (Pt|YIG|Pt) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Jing Liu , Ludo J. Cornelissen , Juan Shan , Bart J. van Wees , Timo Kuschel

Spin distribution in the diffraction pattern of two-dimensional electron gas by a split gate and a quantum point contact is computed in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling. After diffracted, the component of spin perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Cheng-Ju Lin , Chyh-Hong Chern

Using a combination of heat pulse and nuclear magnetic resonance techniques we demonstrate that the phase boundary separating the interlayer phase coherent quantum Hall effect at $\nu_T = 1$ in bilayer electron gases from the weakly coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. B. Spielman , L. A. Tracy , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

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

The generation, manipulation and detection of spin-polarized electrons in nanostructures define the main challenges of spin-based electronics[1]. Amongst the different approaches for spin generation and manipulation, spin-orbit coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergio O. Valenzuela , M. Tinkham

We study the magnon transport in the nonlocal configuration composed of two Pt strips on top of yttrium iron garnet, with and without the presence of RF microwave generated by an on-chip antenna. We find that the spin-Hall induced thermal…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 Yabin Fan , Justin T. Hou , Joseph Finley , Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Luqiao Liu

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

We report on the detection of the intrinsic spin Hall effect in a modulation doped Al-GaAs/GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure bounded by a self-aligned pn-junction, fabricated by the cleaved edge overgrowth method. Light emission due to the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-05-08 Adrian Maier , Christian Reichl , Stefan Riedi , Stefan Faelt , Werner Wegscheider

Hole spins in semiconductors are a potential qubit alternative to electron spins. In nuclear-spin-rich host crystals like GaAs, the hyperfine interaction of hole spins with nuclei is considerably weaker than that for electrons, leading to…

We identify and investigate thermal spin transport phenomena in sputter-deposited Pt/NiFe$_2$O$_{\textrm{4-x}}$ ($4\geq x \geq 0$) bilayers. We separate the voltage generated by the spin Seebeck effect from the anomalous Nernst effect…

The anomalous spin transport coefficients of gapped Dirac electrons are studied with application to a quasi-two-dimensional organic conductor $\alpha$-(BETS)$_2$I$_3$ in mind. In the presence of a gap induced by spin-orbit interaction, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Masao Ogata , Soshun Ozaki , Hiroyasu Matsuura

Spin-orbit coupling provides a versatile tool to generate and to manipulate the spin degree of freedom in low-dimensional semiconductor structures. The spin Hall effect, where an electrical current drives a transverse spin current and…

Weyl semimetals are playing a major role in condensed matter physics due to exotic topological properties, and their coexistence with ferromagnetism may lead to enhanced spin-related phenomena. Here, the inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-19 L. Leiva , S. Granville , Y. Zhang , S. Dushenko , E. Shigematsu , T. Shinjo , R. Ohshima , Y. Ando , M. Shiraishi

The possibility of electrically exciting and detecting magnon currents in magnetic insulators has opened exciting perspectives for transporting spin information in electronic devices. However, the role of the magnetic field and the nonlocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 Jialiang Gao , Charles-Henri Lambert , Richard Schlitz , Manfred Fiebig , Pietro Gambardella , Saül Vélez

We examine the influence of crystal growth on the spin-pumping induced inverse spin Hall effect in Fe/Pt bilayers. The morphology of the Fe/Pt interface influences the effective spin mixing conductance. The increase of growth temperature…

We provide a theoretical description of diffusive charge and spin transport in hybrid devices containing altermagnets. Based on recently derived drift--diffusion equations for coupled charge and spin dynamics and general boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Nicolás Sigales , Tim Kokkeler , Gonzalo de Polsi , Sebastian Bergeret

We investigate the inverse spin Hall voltage of a 10nm thin Pt strip deposited on the magnetic insulators Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) and NiFe2O4 (NFO) with a temperature gradient in the film plane. We observe characteristics typical of the spin Seebeck…

We investigate the spin-polarization of the ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As by point contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy. The conductance spectra are analyzed using a recent theoretical model that accounts for momentum- and…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-21 S. Piano , R. Grein , C. J. Mellor , K. Vyborny , R. Campion , M. Wang , M. Eschrig , B. L. Gallagher