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A large spin-accumulation voltage of more than 1.5 mV at 1 mA, i.e., a magnetoresistance of 1.5 {\Omega}, was measured by means of the local three-terminal magnetoresistance in nondegenerate Si-based lateral spin valves (LSVs) at room…

Pure spin currents are measured in micron-wide channels of GaAs two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). Spins are injected and detected using quantum point contacts, which become spin polarized at high magnetic field. High sensitivity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. M. Frolov , A. Venkatesan , W. Yu , W. Wegscheider , J. A. Folk

Spin transport via electrons is typically plagued by Joule heating and short decay lengths due to spin-flip scattering. It is known that dissipationless spin currents can arise when using conventional superconducting contacts, yet this has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 Sol Jacobsen , Iryna Kulagina , Jacob Linder

Non-local spin injection in lateral spin valves generates a pure spin current which is a diffusive flow of spins (i.e. spin angular momentums) with no net charge flow. The diffusive spins lose phase coherency in precession while undergoing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-02 Hiroshi Idzuchi , Yasuhiro Fukuma , YoshiChika Otani

Using long-distance lateral devices, spin transport near the interface of Si and its native oxide (SiO2) is studied by spin-valve measurements in an in-plane magnetic field and spin precession measurements in a perpendicular magnetic field…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Hyuk-Jae Jang , Ian Appelbaum

Since its discovery, graphene has been a promising material for spintronics: its low spin-orbit coupling, negligible hyperfine interaction, and high electron mobility are obvious advantages for transporting spin information over long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Jose H. Garcia , Marc Vila , Aron W. Cummings , Stephan Roche

Using fully self consistent methods, we study spin transport in realistic, fabricable experimental spin valve systems consisting of two magnetic layers, a superconducting layer, and a spacer normal layer between the ferromagnets. Our…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-05-09 Evan Moen , Oriol T. Valls

Spin injection in high-quality epitaxial Mn5Ge3 Schottky contacts on n-type Ge has been investigated using a three-terminal Hanle effect measurement. Clear Hanle and inverted Hanle signals with features characteristic of spin accumulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Spiesser , H. Saito , R. Jansen , S. Yuasa , K. Ando

Conversion of traveling magnons into an electron carried spin current is demonstrated in a time resolved experiment using a spatially separated inductive spin-wave source and an inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) detector. A short spin-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-26 A. V. Chumak , A. A. Serga , M. B. Jungfleisch , R. Neb , D. A. Bozhko , V. S. Tiberkevich , B. Hillebrands

Efficient generation of spin currents from charge currents is of high importance for memory and logic applications of spintronics. In particular, generation of spin currents from charge currents in high spin-orbit coupling metals has the…

We inject spin-polarized electrons from an Fe/MgO tunnel barrier contact into n-type Ge(001) substrates with electron densities 2e16 < n < 8e17 cm-3, and electrically detect the resulting spin accumulation using three-terminal Hanle…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-02-20 A. T. Hanbicki , S. -. F. Cheng , R. Goswami , O. M. J. van `t Erve , B. T. Jonker

The spin-conserving length-scale is a key parameter determining functionalities of a broad range of spintronic devices including magnetic multilayer spin-valves in the commercialized magnetic memories or lateral spin transistors in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 L. Nádvorník , P. Němec , T. Janda , K. Olejník , V. Novák , V. Skoromets , H. Němec , P. Kužel , F. Trojánek , T. Jungwirth , J. Wunderlich

The technique of propagating spin wave spectroscopy is applied to a 20 nm thick Fe/MgO (001) film. The magnetic parameters extracted from the position of the resonance peaks are very close to those tabulated for bulk iron. From the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-22 Olga Gladii , David Halley , Yves Henry , Matthieu Bailleul

We report the first experimental demonstration of room-temperature spin transport in n-type Ge epilayers grown on a Si(001) substrate. By utilizing spin pumping under ferromagnetic resonance, which inherently endows a spin battery function…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Sergey Dushenko , Mariko Koike , Yuichiro Ando , Teruya Shinjo , Maksym Myronov , Masashi Shiraishi

A quantitative investigation of spin-pumping-induced spin-transport in n-GaAs was conducted at room temperature (RT). GaAs has a non-negligible spin orbit interaction, so that electromotive force due to the inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Akiyori Yamamoto , Yuichiro Ando , Teruya Shinjo , Tetsuya Uemura , Masashi Shiraishi

Spintronics is an emerging form of electronics based on the electrons' spin degree of freedom for which materials with robust half-metallic ferromagnet (HMF) character are very attractive. Here we determine the structural stability,…

We demonstrated that the spin injection/extraction efficiency is enhanced by an ultrathin Mg insertion layer (<= 2 nm) in Fe/Mg/MgO/n+-Si tunnel junctions. In diode-type vertical three-terminal devices fabricated on a Si substrate, we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Shoichi Sato , Ryosho Nakane , Takato Hada , Masaaki Tanaka

We study the effect of a pure spin current on the Kondo singlet in a diluted magnetic alloy using non-local lateral spin valve structures with highly spin polarized Co2FeSi electrodes. Temperature dependence of the non-local spin signals…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-01 K. Hamaya , T. Kurokawa , S. Oki , S. Yamada , T. Kanashima , T. Taniyama

There has been much interest in the injection and detection of spin polarized carriers in semiconductors for the purposes of developing novel spintronic devices. Here we report the electrical injection and detection of spin-polarized…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-07-10 Wei Han , Xin Jiang , Adam Kajdos , See-Hun Yang , Susanne Stemmer , Stuart S. P. Parkin

We present the analysis of the spin signals obtained in NiFe based metallic lateral spin valves. We exploit the spin dependent diffusive equations in both the conventional 1D analytic modeling as well as in 3D Finite Element Method…