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We report electrical control of the spin polarization of InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) at room temperature. This is achieved by electrical injection of spin-polarized electrons from an Fe Schottky contact. The circular…

We report on the study of spin-polarized electric currents in diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) quantum wells subjected to an in-plane external magnetic field and illuminated by microwave or terahertz radiation. The effect is studied in…

We report on design, fabrication, and magnetooptical studies of a III-V/II-VI hybrid structure containing a GaAs/AlGaAs/ZnSe/ZnCdMnSe double quantum well (QW). The structure design allows one to tune the QW levels into the resonance, thus…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Toropov , I. V. Sedova , S. V. Sorokin , Ya. V. Terent'ev , E. L. Ivchenko , S. V. Ivanov

The interrelation between spin and charge in semiconductors leads to interesting effects, e.g., the Rashba-type spin-orbit splitting or the exchange enhancement. These properties are proposed to be used in applications such as spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-18 M. Morgenstern , A. Georgi , C. Straßer , C. R. Ast , S. Becker , M. Liebmann

A comparison is made between the degree of spin polarization of electrons excited by one- and two-photon absorption of circularly polarized light in bulk zincblende semiconductors. Time- and polarization-resolved experiments in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 R. D. R. Bhat , P. Nemec , Y. Kerachian , H. M. van Driel , J. E. Sipe , Arthur L. Smirl

The edge of spin unpolarized or spin polarized $\nu=2/3$ fractional quantum Hall states is predicted by the effective theory to support a backward moving neutral mode in addition to a forward moving charge mode. We study this issue from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-08 Ying-Hai Wu , G. J. Sreejith , Jainendra K. Jain

Owing to their integer spin, exciton-polaritons in microcavities can be used for observation of non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensation in solid state. However, spin-related phenomena of such condensates are difficult to explore due to…

We present {\it ab initio} calculations of the spin-dependent electronic transport in Fe/GaAs/Fe and Fe/ZnSe/Fe (001) junctions simulating the situation of a spin-injection experiment. We follow a ballistic Landauer-B\"uttiker approach for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Phivos Mavropoulos , Olaf Wunnicke , Peter H. Dederichs

We observe the inverse spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas confined in AlGaAs/InGaAs quantum wells. Specifically, we find that an inhomogeneous spin density induced by the optical injection gives rise an electric current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Baoli Liu , Junren Shi , Wenxin Wang , Hongming Zhao , Dafang Li , Shoucheng Zhang , Qikun Xue , Dongmin Chen

Spin-phonon interactions in 2D magnetic materials are crucial in advancing next-generation spintronic devices. Therefore, identifying new materials with significant spin-phonon interactions is of great importance. In this context, MnSe,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-27 Suman Kalyan Pradhan , Arnab Bera , Soham Das , Yongli Yu , Jicheng Wang , Rui Wu

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect has attracted extensive research interest because of the potential applications in spintronics and quantum computing, which is attributable to two conducting edge channels with opposite spin polarization…

Layered oxide heterostructures are the new routes to tailor desired electronic and magnetic phases emerging from competing interactions involving strong correlation, orbital hopping, tunnelling and lattice coupling phenomena. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-02 S. Samanta , S. B. Mishra , B. R. K. Nanda

Spin Hall effect (SHE), a fundamental transport phenomenon with non-zero spin current but vanishing charge current, has important applications in spintronics for the electrical control of spins. Owing to the half-spin nature of electrons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Junpeng Hou , Ying Su , Chuanwei Zhang

We demonstrate electrical electron spin injection via interband tunneling in ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic semiconductor Esaki diodes. An interband tunnel junction between ferromagnetic p+-(Ga,Mn)As and nonmagnetic n+-GaAs under reverse-bias…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Makoto Kohda , Yuzo Ohno , Koji Takamura , Fumihiro Matsukura , Hideo Ohno

A most fundamental and longstanding goal in spintronics is to electrically tune highly efficient spin injectors and detectors, preferably compatible with nanoscale electronics. Here, we demonstrate all these points using semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Arunav Bordoloi , Valentina Zannier , Lucia Sorba , Christian Schönenberger , Andreas Baumgartner

We evaluate the distribution of Hall conductances in magnetic subbands of two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling placed in a periodic potential and perpendicular magnetic field. In this semiconductor structure the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , A. A. Perov

We propose a new approach to generate and detect spin currents in graphene, based on a large spin-Hall response arising near the neutrality point in the presence of external magnetic field. Spin currents result from the imbalance of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-24 D. A. Abanin , R. V. Gorbachev , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim , L. S. Levitov

We investigated experimentally non-equilibrium state of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the quantum Hall effect (QHE) regime, studying the hysteresis of magnetoresistance of a 2DEG with a constriction. The large amplitude of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 M. V. Budantsev , D. A. Pokhabov , A. G. Pogosov , E. Yu. Zhdanov , A. K. Bakarov , A. I. Toropov

We report on electronic transport measurements of electrostatically gated nano-devices of the semimetal WTe\textsubscript{2}. High mobility metallic behavior is achieved in the 2D limit by encapsulating thin flakes in an inert atmosphere.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Valla Fatemi , Quinn D. Gibson , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Robert J. Cava , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

A biref review is presented on resonant spin Hall effect, where a tiny external electric field induces a saturated spin Hall current in a 2-dimensional electron or hole gas in a perpendicular magnetic field. The phenomenon is attributted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-14 Fu-Chun Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen