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Successful incorporation of the spin degree of freedom in semiconductor technology requires the development of a new paradigm allowing for a scalable, non-destructive electrical detection of the spin-polarization of injected charge carriers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Wunderlich , A. C. Irvine , Jairo Sinova , B. G. Park , X. L. Xu , B. Kaestner , V. Novak , T. Jungwirth

We theoretically study the spin-dependent transport in a ferromagnet/superconductor/ferro-magnet double barrier tunnel junction. The spin-polarized tunneling currents give rise to spin imbalance in the superconductor. The resulting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Saburo Takahashi , Hiroshi Imamura , Sasamichi Maekawa

In this work, we study the spin polarization in the $MoS(Se)_{2}-WS(Se)_{2}$ Transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures by using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method and a three-band tight-binding model near the edges of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 S. Hannan Mouasvi , H. Simchi

Detection of the degree of circular polarization of the electroluminescence of a light-emitting diode fitted with a spin injecting contact (a spin-LED) allows for a direct determination of the spin polarization of the injected carriers.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Fiederling , P. Grabs , W. Ossau , G. Schmidt , L. W. Molenkamp

We investigate the correlation between spin signals measured in three-terminal (3T) geometry by the Hanle effect and the spin accumulation generated in a semiconductor channel in a lateral (Ga,Mn)As/GaAs Esaki diode device. We…

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

New mechanism of magnetoresistance, based on tunneling-emission of spin polarized electrons from ferromagnets (FM) into semiconductors (S) and precession of electron spin in the semiconductor layer under external magnetic field, is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. M. Bratkovsky , V. V. Osipov

We explore electrically injected, spin polarized transport in a ballistic two-dimensional electron gas. We augment the Buettiker-Landauer picture with a simple, but realistic model for spin-selective contacts to describe multimode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. X. Tang , F. G. Monzon , Ron Lifshitz , M. C. Cross , M. L. Roukes

The correlation between the magnetic moment in ferromagnetic alloys and the tunneling spin polarization in ferromagnet-insulator-superconductor tunneling experiments has been a mystery. The measured spin polarization for Fe, Co, Ni, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Tat-Sang Choy , Jian Chen , Selman Hershfield

Conversion of heat into a spin-current in electron doped silicon can offer a promising path for spin-caloritronics. Here we create an electron spin polarization in the conduction band of n-type silicon by producing a temperature gradient…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-17 André Dankert , Saroj P. Dash

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

We experimentally show evidence for the presence of spin accumulation in localized states at ferromagnet-silicon interfaces, detected by electrical Hanle effect measurements in CoFe/$n^{+}$-Si/$n$-Si lateral devices. By controlling the…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-07-06 Y. Ando , S. Yamada , K. Kasahara , K. Masaki , K. Sawano , M. Miyao , K. Hamaya

We study theoretically the spin transport in a nonmagnetic metal connected to ferromagnetic injector and detector electrodes. We derive a general expression for the spin accumulation signal which covers from the metallic to the tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Takahashi , S. Maekawa

We study the spin dependent tunneling of electrons through a zinc-blende semiconductor with the indirect X (or D) minimum serving as the tunneling barrier. The basic difference between tunneling through the G vs. the X barrier is the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Subodha Mishra , Sunita Thulasi , Sashi Satpathy

An outstanding feature of topological quantum materials is their novel spin topology in the electronic band structures with an expected large charge-to-spin conversion efficiency. Here, we report a charge current-induced spin polarization…

Controlling charge-spin current conversion by electric fields is crucial in spintronic devices, which can be realized in diatom ferroelectric semiconductor GeTe where it is established that ferroelectricity can change the spin texture. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-09 Wenxu Zhang , Zhao Teng , Huizhong Zeng , Jakub Zelezny , Hongbin Zhang , Wanli Zhang

We propose a device concept, based on monolayer stanene, able to provide highly polarized spin currents (up to a $98\%$) with voltage-controlled spin polarization operating at room temperature and with small operating voltage ($0.3$ V). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 Enrique G. Marin , Damiano Marian , Giuseppe Iannaccone , Gianluca Fiori

Spin injection efficiency based on conventional and/or half-metallic ferromagnet/semiconductor is greatly limited by the Schmidt obstacle due to conductivity mismatch, here we proposed that by replacing the metallic injectors with spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 G. Z. Xu , X. M. Zhang , Z. P. Hou , Y. Wang , E. K. Liu , X. K. Xi , S. G. Wang , W. Q. Wang , H. Z. Luo , W. H. Wang , G. H. Wu

We demonstrate spin-accumulation signals controlled by the gate voltage in a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor structure with a Si channel and a CoFe/$n^{+}$-Si contact at room temperature. Under the application of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-31 Y. Ando , Y. Maeda , K. Kasahara , S. Yamada , K. Masaki , Y. Hoshi , K. Sawano , K. Izunome , A. Sakai , M. Miyao , K. Hamaya

We propose a spintronic device to generate spin polarization in a mesoscopic region by purely electric means. We show that the spin Hall effect in combination with the stirring effect are sufficient to induce measurable spin polarization in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-27 Yu. V. Pershin , N. A. Sinitsyn , A. Kogan , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith