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We analyze spin-transport in semiconductors in the regime characterized by $T\stackrel{<}{\sim}T_F$ (intermediate to degenerate), where $T_F$ is the Fermi temperature. Such a regime is of great importance since it includes the lightly doped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Irene D'Amico

We consider spin polarized transport in a ferromagnet-insulator/semiconductor/insulator-ferromagnet (F1-I-S-I-F2) junction. We find that the spin current is strongly dependent on the spin configurations, the doping and space charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-22 Yue Yu , Jinbin Li , S. T. Chui

Angular momentum transport in magnetic multilayered structures plays a central role in spintronic physics and devices. The angular momentum currents or spin currents are carried by either quasi-particles such as electrons and magnons, or by…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-04 Kai Chen , Weiwei Lin , C. L. Chien , Shufeng Zhang

Traditional studies that combine spintronics and superconductivity have mainly focused on the injection of spin-polarized quasiparticles into superconducting materials. However, a complete synergy between superconducting and magnetic orders…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Jacob Linder , Jason W. A. Robinson

Extensive studies on the impact of bismuth incorporation into the (Ga,Mn)As prototype dilute ferromagnetic semiconductor (DFS) on its structural, magnetic and magnetotransport properties are summarized in this review. Thin epitaxial layers…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-14 Tadeusz Wosinski

Employing first-principles calculations, we investigate efficiency of spin injection from a ferromagnetic (FM) electrode (Ni) into graphene and possible enhancement by using a barrier between the electrode and graphene. Three types of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-05 Qingyun Wu , Lei Shen , Zhaoqiang Bai , Minggang Zeng , Ming Yang , Zhigao Huang , Yuan Ping Feng

Generation of spin imbalance in nonmagnetic semiconductors is crucial for the functioning of many spintronic devices. An attractive design of spin injectors into semiconductors is based on a spin pumping from a precessing ferromagnet,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Andrei V. Azovtsev , Andrei I. Nikitchenko , Nikolay A. Pertsev

Over the last two decades, the new branch of spintronics, i.e., semiconductor spintronics, has gained more attention because it integrates the characteristics of conventional semiconductors, such as optical bandgap and charge carriers,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-22 Pankaj Bhardwaj , Jarnail Singh , Vikram Verma , Ravi Kumar

Materials with strong spin orbit coupling (SOC) are essential for realizing spin orbit torque (SOT) based magnetic memory devices. Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising candidates for such appli cations because of their…

The non-uniform standing spin-wave modes in thin magnetic films and nanostructures provide important information about surfaces and buried interfaces. Very often they are lacking in the recorded ferromagnetic resonance spectra for symmetry…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-15 C. S. Chang , A. O. Adeyeye , M. Kostylev , S. Samarin

There has been considerable interest in spin-orbit torques for the purpose of manipulating the magnetization of ferromagnetic (FM) films or nano-elements for spintronic technologies. Spin-orbit torques are derived from spin currents created…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-02 Weifeng Zhang , Wei Han , See-hun Yang , Yan Sun , Yang Zhang , Binghai Yan , Stuart S. P. Parkin

Spin-electronic devices are poised to become part of mainstream microelectronic technology .Downsizing them, however, faces the intrinsic difficulty that as ferromagnets become smaller, it becomes more difficult to stabilize their magnetic…

We experimentally observe nonlinear spin torque in metallic bilayers of platinum and permalloy by means of spin-torque ferromagnetic-resonance (ST-FMR) under massive dc current injection. The observed nonlinear spin torque exerted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Toshiyuki Kodama , Nobuaki Kikuchi , Takahiro Chiba , Satoshi Okamoto , Seigo Ohno , Satoshi Tomita

The spatial arrangement of adsorbates deposited onto a clean surface in vacuum typically cannot be reversibly tuned. Here we use scanning tunneling microscopy to demonstrate that molecules deposited onto graphene field-effect transistors…

A dual-gate InSb nanosheet field-effect device is realized and is used to investigate the physical origin and the controllability of the spin-orbit interaction in a narrow bandgap semiconductor InSb nanosheet. We demonstrate that by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Yuanjie Chen , Shaoyun Huang , Dong Pan , Jianhong Xue , Li Zhang , Jianhua Zhao , H. Q. Xu

We present a design-scheme for ultra-low power neuromorphic hardware using emerging spin-devices. We propose device models for 'neuron', based on lateral spin valves and domain wall magnets that can operate at ultra-low terminal voltage of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-07-19 Mrigank Sharad , Charles Augustine , Georgios Panagopoulos , Kaushik Roy

We present a consistent microscopic study of spin pumping effects for both metallic and insulating ferromagnets. As for metallic case, we present a simple quantum mechanical picture of the effect as due to the electron spin flip as a result…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 Gen Tatara , Shigemi Mizukami

Spin transfer torque (STT) affords magnetic nanodevices the potential to act as memory, computing, and microwave elements operating at ultra-low currents and at a low energy cost. Spin transfer torque is not only effective in manipulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Y. Zhou , E. Iacocca , A. Awad , R. K. Dumas , F. C. Zhang , H. B. Braun , J. Åkerman

We propose an efficient spin filter including an antidot fabricated on semiconductor heterostructures with strong spin-orbit interaction. The antidot creates a tunable potential on two-dimensional electron gas in the heterostructures, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-17 Tomohiro Yokoyama , Mikio Eto

Optical control and read-out of the ground state spin structure has been demonstrated for defect states in crystalline semiconductors, including the diamond NV- center, and these are promising systems for quantum technologies. Molecular…