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Electronic spin current is convertible to magnonic spin current via the creation or annihilation of thermal magnons at the interface of a magnetic insulator and a metal with a strong spin-orbital coupling. So far this phenomenon was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Xi-guang Wang , Zhi-xiong Li , Zhen-wei Zhou , Yao-zhuang Nie , Qing-lin Xia , Zhong-ming Zeng , L. Chotorlishvili , J. Berakdar , Guang-hua Guo

We propose three-terminal spin devices with graphene nanoribbons (terminals) and a graphene flake (channel) to generate a highly spin-polarized current without an external magnetic field or ferromagnetic electrodes. The Hubbard repulsion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 Rouhollah Farghadan , Alireza Saffarzadeh

Spin current--a flow of electron spins without a charge current--is an ideal information carrier free from Joule heating for electronic devices. The celebrated spin Hall effect, which arises from the relativistic spin-orbit coupling,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-09 Makoto Naka , Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose , Yuki Yanagi , Yukitoshi Motome , Hitoshi Seo

We investigate electrically-induced spin currents generated by the spin Hall effect in GaAs structures that distinguish edge effects from spin transport. Using Kerr rotation microscopy to image the spin polarization, we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Sih , W. H. Lau , R. C. Myers , V. R. Horowitz , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

A spin version of transistor, where magnetism is used to influence electrical behaviors of the semiconductor, has been a long-pursued device concept in spintronics. In this work, we experimentally study a field-effect transistor with CrSBr,…

Fundamental physical properties limiting the performance of spin field effect transistors are compared to those of ordinary (charge-based) field effect transistors. Instead of raising and lowering a barrier to current flow these spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kimberley C. Hall , Michael E. Flatté

We consider theoretically transport in a spinfull one-channel interacting quantum wire placed in an external magnetic field. For the case of two point-like impurities embedded in the wire, under a small voltage bias the spin-polarized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-17 Zoran Ristivojevic , George I. Japaridze , Thomas Nattermann

We investigate the electron transport through a two-dimensional semiconductor with a nonuniform Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Due to the combination of the coherence effect and the Rashba interaction, a spontaneous spin-polarized current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Novel spin transport behavior is theoretically shown to result from replacing the usual metal (or poly-silicon) gate in a silicon field-effect transistor with a ferromagnet, separated from the semiconductor by an ultra-thin oxide. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. McGuire , C. Ciuti , L. J. Sham

We report measurements of magnetic switching and steady-state magnetic precession driven by spin-polarized currents in nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions with low-resistance, < 5 Ohm-micron-squared, barriers. The current densities required…

The discovery that a spin polarized current can exert a large torque on a ferromagnet through a transfusion of spin angular momentum, offers a new way to control a magnetization by simple current injection, without the help of an applied…

We consider spin-polarized transport in a quantum spin Hall antidot system coupled to normal leads. Due to the helical nature of the conducting edge states, the screening potential at the dot region becomes spin dependent without external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , Minchul Lee , David Sanchez

We provide evidence for the effects of spin polarized current on a nanofabricated antiferromagnet incorporated into a spin-valve structure. Signatures of current-induced effects include bipolar steps in differential resistance,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergei Urazhdin , Nicholas Anthony

Coupling between conduction electrons and localized magnetization is responsible for a variety of phenomena in spintronic devices. This coupling enables to generate spin currents from dynamical magnetization. Due to the nonlinearity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Takaharu Tashiro , Saki Matsuura , Akiyo Nomura , Shun Watanabe , Keehoon Kang , Henning Sirringhaus , Kazuya Ando

It is shown that spin Hall effect creates uniform spin polarization of electrons in semiconductor with a linear in the momentum spin splitting of conduction band. In turn, the profile of the non-uniform spin polarization accumulated at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Korenev

We consider "shuttling" of spin-polarized electrons between two magnetic electrodes (half-metals) by a movable dot with a single electronic level. If the magnetization of the electrodes is antiparallel we show that the transmittance of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Y. Gorelik , S. I. Kulinich , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson , V. M. Vinokur

We develop theoretical arguments that demonstrate the possibility of metallic field-effect transistors (METFET's) in one-dimensional systems and particularly in armchair carbon nanotubes. A very inhomogeneous electric field, such as the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-12 Slava V. Rotkin , Karl Hess

We have calculated the spin-polarization effects of a current in a two dimensional electron gas which is contacted by two ferromagnetic metals. In the purely diffusive regime, the current may indeed be spin-polarized. However, for a typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Schmidt , L. W. Molenkamp , A. T. Filip , B. J. van Wees

Two types of spintronic devices on the base of magnetic nanostructures containing silicon dioxide films with cobalt nanoparticles SiO2(Co) on GaAs substrate - magnetic sensors and field-effect transistor governed by applied magnetic field -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-09 L. V. Lutsev , A. I. Stognij , N. N. Novitskii , A. S. Shulenkov

The integration of the spin degree of freedom in charge-based electronic devices has revolutionised both sensing and memory capability in microelectronics. Further development in spintronic devices requires electrical manipulation of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Wenjing Yan , Oihana Txoperena , Roger Llopis , Hanan Dery , Luis E. Hueso , Fèlix Casanova