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Spin transport properties of a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas are studied in the presence of electron-electron interactions. Longitudinal and transverse spin diffusion coefficients are calculated with the quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yutaka Takahashi , Kosuke Shizume , Naoto Masuhara

We study transport phenomena through a ballistic ferromagnet-superconductor-ferromagnet (F/S/F) junction, comparing the case in which the ferromagnetic order in the two F layers is of the standard Stoner type with the case where it is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-06-08 Paola Gentile , Marilena Catapano , Nicola De Vivo , Mario Cuoco , Alfonso Romano , Canio Noce

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

We report on nonlocal transport in superconductor hybrid structures, with ferromagnetic as well as normal-metal tunnel junctions attached to the superconductor. In the presence of a strong Zeeman splitting of the density of states, both…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-26 M. J. Wolf , F. Hübler , S. Kolenda , H. v. Löhneysen , D. Beckmann

We show that spin polarization of electron density in nonmagnetic degenerate semiconductors can achieve 100%. This effect is realized in ferromagnet-semiconductor $FM-n^{+}$-$n$ junctions even at moderate spin selectivity of the $FM-n^{+}$…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Petukhov , V. N. Smelyanskiy , V. V. Osipov

What happens to spin-polarised electrons when they enter a superconductor? Superconductors at equilibrium and at finite temperature contain both paired particles (of opposite spin) in the condensate phase as well as unpaired,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-02-19 C. H. L. Quay , D. Chevallier , C. Bena , M. Aprili

The effects of spin-polarized quasiparticle transport in superconducting YBa2Cu3O_{7-\delta} (YBCO) epitaxial films are investigated by means of current injection into perovskite ferromagnet-insulator-superconductor (F-I-S)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 C. -C. Fu , Z. Huang , N. -C. Yeh

Charge and spin Josephson currents in a ballistic superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junction with spin-triplet pairing symmetry are studied using the quasiclassical Eilenberger equation. The gap vector of superconductors has an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 Yousef Rahnavard , Gholamreza Rashedi , Takehito Yokoyama

We derive diffusion equations, which describe spin-charge coupled transport on the helical metal surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. The main feature of these equations is a large magnitude of the spin-charge coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. A. Burkov , D. G. Hawthorn

High degree of electron spin polarization is of crucial importance in operation of spintronic devices. We study the propagation of spin-polarized electrons through a boundary between two n-type semiconductor regions with different doping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-22 Yuriy V. Pershin , Vladimir Privman

Using Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire approach we calculated the equilibrium distributions of electric field, polarization and space charge in the ferroelectric-semiconductor heterostructures containing proper or incipient ferroelectric thin…

We study theoretically extraction of spin-polarized electrons at nonmagnetic semiconductor/ferromagnet junctions. The outflow of majority spin electrons from the semiconductor into the ferromagnet leaves a cloud of minority spin electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Yu. V. Pershin , M. Di Ventra

We study the effect of the electron-electron interaction on the transport of spin polarized currents in metals and doped semiconductors in the diffusive regime. In addition to well-known screening effects, we identify two additional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Irene D'Amico , Giovanni Vignale

In spin-polarized bipolar transport both electrons and holes in doped semiconductors contribute to spin-charge coupling. The current conversion between the minority (as referred to carriers and not spin) and majority carriers leads to novel…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Igor Zutic

A current problem in semiconductor spin-based electronics is the difficulty of experimentally expressing the effect of spin-polarized current in electrical circuit measurements. We present a theoretical solution with the principle of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-20 Hanan Dery , Lukasz Cywinski , Lu J. Sham

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

In an inhomogeneously doped magnetic semiconductor, an interplay between an equilibrium magnetization and injected nonequilibrium spin leads to the spin-voltaic effect--a spin analogue of the photo-voltaic effect. By reversing either the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian

Ferromagnetic semiconductors play a crucial role in spintronic devices, enabling effective control of electron spin over charge. This study explores their unique properties, ongoing advancements in spin control, and potential integration…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Nazmul Hasan

We have reconsidered the problem of spin injection across ferromagnet/non-magnetic-semiconductor (FM/NMS) and dilute-magnetic-semiconductor/non-magnetic-semiconductor interfaces, for structures with \textit{finite} magnetic layers (FM or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander Khaetskii , J. Carlos Egues , Daniel Loss , Charles Gould , Georg Schmidt , Laurens W. Molenkamp

Spin injection and detection in silicon is a difficult problem, in part because the weak spin-orbit coupling and indirect gap preclude using standard optical techniques. We propose two ways to overcome this difficulty, and illustrate their…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Igor Zutic , Jaroslav Fabian , Steven C. Erwin