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We study the spin polarization of tunneling holes injected from ferromagnetic GaMnAs into a p-doped semiconductor through a tunneling barrier. We obtain an upper limit to the spin injection rate. We find that spin-orbit interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 L. Brey , J. Fernandez-Rossier , C. Tejedor

A minority-spin resonant state at the Fe/GaAs(001) interface is predicted to reverse the spin polarization with voltage bias of electrons transmitted across this interface. Using a Green's function approach within the local spin density…

Polyalanine molecules (PA) with an {\alpha}-helix conformation gathered recently a lot of interest as the propagation of electrons through the chiral backbone structure comes along with spin polarization of the transmitted electrons. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Nguyen T. N. Ha , L. Rasabathina , O. Hellwig , A. Sharma , G. Salvan , S. Yochelis , Y. Paltiel , L. T. Baczewski , C. Tegenkamp

Interfacial two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) formed at the perovskite-type oxide, such as SrTiO3, has attracted significant attention due to its properties of ferromagnetism, superconductivity, and its potential application in…

Using a combined approach of spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, band structure and photoemission calculations we investigate the influence of bulk defects and surface states on the spin polarization of Co2Mn(alpha)Si thin films with…

We study the spin-resolved transport through magnetic nanostructures in monolayer and bilayer graphene. We take into account both the orbital effect of the inhomogeneous perpendicular magnetic field as well as the in-plane spin splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-04 L. Dell'Anna , A. De Martino

We find that photoexcited electrons in an n-GaAs epilayer rapidly (< 50 ps) spin-polarize due to the proximity of an epitaxial ferromagnetic metal. Comparison between MnAs/GaAs and Fe/GaAs structures reveals that this coherent spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Epstein , I. Malajovich , R. K. Kawakami , Y. Chye , M. Hanson , P. M. Petroff , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

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…

We study spin transport in a fully hBN encapsulated monolayer-graphene van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure, at room temperature. A top-layer of bilayer-hBN is used as a tunnel barrier for spin-injection and detection in graphene with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Mallikarjuna Gurram , Siddhartha Omar , Bart J. van Wees

We describe a new means for electrically creating spin polarization in semiconductors. In contrast to spin injection of electrons by tunneling through a reverse-biased Schottky barrier, we observe spin accumulation at the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Stephens , J. Berezovsky , J. P. McGuire , L. J. Sham , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

We study spin-dependent interband resonant tunneling in double-barrier InAs/AlSb/ GaMnSb heterostructures. We demonstrate that these structures can be used as spin filters utilizing spin-selective tunneling of electrons through the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 A. G. Petukhov , D. O. Demchenko , A. N. Chantis

We present magneto-photoluminescence measurements in a hybrid 2D semiconductor/ferromagnetic structure consisting of MoSe2/hBN/Ni. When the Nickel layer is magnetized, we observe circularly polarized photoluminescence of the trion peak in…

Many proposed and realized spintronic devices involve spin injection and accumulation at an interface between a ferromagnet and a non-magnetic material. We examine the electric field, voltage profile, charge distribution, spin fluxes, and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-30 M. R. Sears , W. M. Saslow

Halide perovskites are perceived to be the promising class of materials for optoelectronics, spinorbitronics and topological electronics due to presence of strong spin-orbit coupling and polarized field. Here, we develop a Hamiltonian using…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-02-02 Mayank Gupta , B. R. K. Nanda

We study spin and valley-dependent transport properties in an n-p-n junction of 8-pmmn borophene monolayer. An external gate voltage and exchange magnetic field, induced by the proximity effect of a ferromagnetic insulator, are applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Fatemeh Imanian Mofrad Bidgoli , Hossein Nikoofard , Narges Nikoofard , Mahdi Esmaeilzadeh

Spin-polarized currents play a key role in spintronics. Recently, it has been found that antiferromagnets with a non-spin-degenerate band structure can efficiently spin-polarize electric currents, even though their net magnetization is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-20 Gautam Gurung , Ding-Fu Shao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We calculated a spin-polarized conductance in the almost unexplored nanostructure "high temperature ferromagnetic insulator/ graphene/ ferroelectric film" with a special attention to the impact of electric polarization rotation in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-02 Eugene A. Eliseev , Anna N. Morozovska , Maksym V. Strikha

Binary ferroelectric nitrides are promising materials for information technologies and power electronics. However, polarization switching in these materials is highly unusual. From the structural perspective, polarization reversal is…

We have used spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy to observe the spin-polarization state of individual Fe and Cr atoms adsorbed onto Co nanoislands. Both of these magnetic adatoms exhibit stationary out-of-plane spin-polarization…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Yayon , V. W. Brar , L. Senapati , S. C. Erwin , M. F. Crommie

We study electronic transport in graphene/ferromagnetic insulator hybrid devices. The system comprises an armchair graphene nanoribbon with a lens-shaped EuO ferromagnetic insulator layer deposited on top of it. When the device supports a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Yuriko Baba , Marta Saiz-Bretín