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Using the non-equilibrium Green's functions formalism in a tight binding model, the spin-dependent transport in armchair graphene nanoribbon (GNR) structures controlled by a ferromagnetic gate is investigated. Beyond the oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 V. Hung Nguyen , V. Nam Do , A. Bournel , V. Lien Nguyen , P. Dollfus

Using an advanced tight-binding approach, we estimate the anisotropy of the tunnel transmission associated with the rotation of the 5/2 spin of a single Mn atom forming an acceptor state in GaAs and located near an AlGaAs tunnel barrier.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 M. O. Nestoklon , O. Krebs , H. Jaffrès , S. Ruttala , J. -M. George , J. -M. Jancu , P. Voisin

Taking into account the available experimental results, we model the electronic properties and current-voltage characteristics of a ferromagnet-semiconductor junction. The Fe/GaAs interface is considered as a Fe/(i-GaAs)/n+-GaAs/n-GaAs…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-19 S. Wolski , C. Jasiukiewicz , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , T. Slobodskyy , W. Hansen

High-quality C-doped p-type AlGaAs heterostructures with mobilities exceeding 150 000 cm$^2$/Vs are investigated by low-temperature magnetotransport experiments. We find features of the fractional quantum Hall effect as well as a highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Grbic , C. Ellenberger , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck

Spin transport property of polarization induced two-dimensional electron gas channel formed in the central vertical plane of a wedge-shaped \textit{c}-oriented GaN nanowall is investigated theoretically. Since the confining potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Swarup Deb , Subhabrata Dhar

The relation between tunnel magneto-resistance (TMR) and spin polarization is explored for GaMnAs/GaAlAs/GaMnAs structures where the carriers experience strong spin-orbit interactions. TMR is calculated using Landauer approach. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Brey , C. Tejedor , J. Fernández-Rossier

A theory of spin-polarized electron transport in ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures, based on a unified semiclassical description of ballistic and diffusive transport in semiconductor structures, is developed. The aim is to provide…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Lipperheide , U. Wille

The spin-Hall effect describes the interconversion of charge currents and spin currents, enabling highly efficient manipulation of magnetization for spintronics. Symmetry conditions generally restrict polarizations of these spin currents to…

Spin-polarized transport through a band-gap-matched ZnSe/Zn_{1-x}Mn_{x} Se/ZnSe/Zn_{1-x}Mn_{x}Se/ZnSe multilayer structure is investigated. The resonant transport is shown to occur at different energies for different spins owing to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

A complete set of the generalized drift-diffusion equations for a coupled charge and spin dynamics in ferromagnets in the presence of extrinsic spin-orbit coupling is derived from the quantum kinetic approach, covering major transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 C. O. Pauyac , M. Chshiev , A. Manchon , S. A. Nikolaev

We demonstrate methods to locally control the spin rotation of moving electrons in a GaAs channel. The Larmor frequency of optically-injected spins is modulated when the spins are dragged through a region of spin-polarized nuclei created at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. E. Nowakowski , G. D. Fuchs , S. Mack , N. Samarth , D. D. Awschalom

A magnetic field applied parallel to the two-dimensional hole system in the GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure, which is metallic in the absence of an external magnetic field, can drive the system into insulating at a finite field through a well…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Jongsoo Yoon , C. C. Li , D. Shahar , D. C. Tsui , M. Shayegan

Epitaxial ferromagnetic metal - semiconductor heterostructures are investigated using polarization-dependent electroabsorption measurements on GaAs p-type and n-type Schottky diodes with embedded In1-xGaxAs quantum wells. We have conducted…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. F. Isakovic , D. M. Carr , J. Strand , B. D. Schultz , C. J. Palmstrom , P. A. Crowell

Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a carbon nanowire which is connected to ferromagnetic electrodes. The molecule itself is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak , Gloria Platero

We have studied the spin-orbit interaction in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas in a GaInAs/InP heterostructure as a function of an applied gate voltage as well as a function of temperature. Highly sensitive magnetotransport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vitaliy A. Guzenko , Thomas Schäpers , Hilde Hardtdegen

A model of coherent tunneling, which combines multi-orbital tight-binding approximation with Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism, is developed and applied to all-semiconductor heterostructures containing (Ga,Mn)As ferromagnetic layers. A…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 P. Sankowski , P. Kacman , J. A. Majewski , T. Dietl

Spin-charge coupling is studied for a strongly confined two-dimensional hole gas subject to a perpendicular magnetic field. The study is based on spin-charge coupled drift-diffusion equations derived from quantum-kinetic equations in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kleinert , V. V. Bryksin

We study the spin-dependent electronic transport through a one-dimensional ballistic quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In particular, we consider the effect of the spin-orbit interaction resulting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

Using Density functional theory and non-equilibrium Green's function formalism, spin dependent electron transport in Fe/Mo$_x$Cr$_{1-x}$S$_2$/Fe magnetic tunnel junction is studied. Spin transport for different thicknesses (1, 3, 5, and 7…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Aloka Ranjan Sahoo , Sharat Chandra

We theoretically investigate spin dependent transport in ferromagnetic/normal metal/ferromagnetic single electron transistors by applying master equation calculations using a two dimensional space of states involving spin and charge degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Watson Kuo , C. D. Chen