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Efficient and versatile spin-to-charge current conversion is crucial for the development of spintronic applications, which strongly rely on the ability to electrically generate and detect spin currents. In this context, the spin Hall effect…

The selective cooling of $^{75}$As spins by optical pumping followed by adiabatic demagnetization in the rotating frame is realized in a nominally undoped GaAs/(Al,Ga)As quantum well. The rotation of 6 kG strong Overhauser field at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 M. Kotur , D. O. Tolmachev , V. M. Litvyak , K. V. Kavokin , D. Suter , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

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

A new magnetic logic overcomes the major limitations of field programmable gate arrays while having a 50% smaller unit cell than conventional designs utilizing magnetic tunnel junctions with one Heusler alloy electrode. These show positive…

Spin transport in non-degenerate semiconductors is expected to pave a way to the creation of spin transistors, spin logic devices and reconfigurable logic circuits, because room temperature (RT) spin transport in Si has already been…

We report electrical spin injection and detection in degenerately doped n-type Ge channels using Mn5Ge3C0.8/Al2O3/n^{+}-Ge tunneling contacts for spin injection and detection. The whole structure is integrated on a Si wafer for…

Over the past decade, topological insulators have received enormous attention for their potential in energy-efficient spin-to-charge conversion, enabled by strong spin-orbit coupling and spin-momentum locked surface states. Despite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Wenxuan Sun , Yequan Chen , Ruijie Xu , Wenzhuo Zhuang , Di Wang , Long Liu , Anke Song , Guozhong Xing , Yongbing Xu , Rong Zhang , Cui-Zu Chang , Xuefeng Wang

A recombination radiation line of electron-hole plasma, observed in electroluminescence spectra of tunneling silicon MOS diodes, has been investigated at the temperature > 300 K. The internal quantum efficiency of the luminescence, equal to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-01-22 P. D. Altukhov , E. G. Kuzminov

A fourteen-fold anisotropy in the spin transport efficiency parallel and perpendicular to the charge transport is observed in a vertically-biased (Ga,Mn)As-based spin-polarized light emitting diode. The spin polarization is determined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. K. Young , E. Johnston-Halperin , D. D. Awschalom , Y. Ohno , H. Ohno

The seeking of room temperature ferromagnetic semiconductors, which take advantages of both the charge and spin degrees of freedom of electrons to realize a variety of functionalities in devices integrated with electronic, optical, and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-26 Huan-Cheng Yang , Ben-Chao Gong , Kai Liu , Zhong-Yi Lu

We present first-principles calculations of ballistic spin injection in Fe/GaAs and Fe/ZnSe junctions with orientation (001), (111), and (110). We find that the symmetry mismatch of the Fe minority-spin states with the semiconductor…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Wunnicke , Ph. Mavropoulos , R. Zeller , P. H. Dederichs

Realisation of practical spintronic devices relies on the ability to create and detect pure spin currents. In graphene-based spin valves this is usually achieved by injection of spin-polarized electrons from ferromagnetic contacts via a…

We study temperature evolution of spin accumulation signals obtained by the three-terminal Hanle effect measurements in a nondegenerated silicon channel with a Schottky-tunnel-barrier contact. We find the clear difference in the…

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

We fabricated a non-local spin valve device with Co-MgO injector/detector tunnel contacts on a graphene spin channel. In this device, the spin polarization of the injector contact can be tuned by both the injector current bias and the gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Sebastian Ringer , Matthias Rosenauer , Tobias Völkl , Maximilian Kadur , Franz Hopperdietzel , Dieter Weiss , Jonathan Eroms

We have fabricated a multi terminal lateral mesoscopic metallic spin valve demonstrating spin precession at room temperature, using tunnel barriers in combination with metallic ferromagnetic electrodes as spin injector and detector. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. J. Jedema , M. V. Costache , H. B. Heersche , J. J. A. Baselmans , B. J. van Wees

We report conductance measurements of a ballistic one-dimensional (1D) wire defined in the lower two-dimensional electron gas of a GaAs/AlGaAs double quantum well. At low temperatures there is an additional structure at $0.7(2e^2/h)$ in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. J. Thomas , J. T. Nicholls , M. Pepper , W. R. Tribe , M. Y. Simmons , D. A. Ritchie

The nonlocal spin resistance is measured as a function of temperature in a Fe/GaAs spin-injection device. For nonannealed samples that show minority-spin injection, the spin resistance is observed up to room temperature and decays…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Salis , A. Fuhrer , R. R. Schlittler , L. Gross , S. F. Alvarado

The short timescale spin dynamics in antiferromagnets is an attractive feature from the standpoint of ultrafast spintronics. Yet generating highly polarized spin currents at room temperature remains a fundamental challenge for…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-15 Ruixiang Fei , Wenshen Song , Lauren Pusey-Nazzaro , Li Yang

We propose a quantum interference spin-injector nanodevice consisting of a superconductor-normal metal hybrid loop connected to a superconductor-ferromagnet bilayer via a tunneling junction. We show that for certain values of the applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-25 F. Giazotto , F. S. Bergeret

We report the bias voltage controlled inversions of tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) in magnetic tunnel junctions composed of Fe3GaTe2 electrodes and hBN tunneling barrier, observed at room temperature. The polarity reversal of TMR occurs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Lihao Zhang , Miao He , Xiaoyu Wang , Haodong Zhang , Keying Han , Yonglai Liu , Lei Zhang , Yingchun Cheng , Jie Pan , Zhe Qu , Zhe Wang