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A WSe$_2$ monolayer shows many interesting properties due to its spin-orbit coupling induced spin splitting in bands around the Fermi level and the spin-valley configuration. The orientation of the spin polarization in the relevant bands is…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-02 Hong Tang , Santosh Neupane , Li Yin , Jason M. Breslin , Adrienn Ruzsinszky

We study spin-dependent interband resonant tunneling in double-barrier InAs/AlSb/ GaMnSb heterostructures. We demonstrate that these structures can be used as spin filters utilizing spin-selective tunneling of electrons through the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 A. G. Petukhov , D. O. Demchenko , A. N. Chantis

In this paper, current-induced spin polarization for two-dimensional electron gas with a general spin-orbit interaction is investigated. For isotropic energy spectrum, the in-plane current-induced spin polarization is found to be dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. M. Wang , H. T. Cui , Q. Lin

A novel spin polarization separation of reflected light is observed, when a linearly polarized Gaussian beam impinges on an air-glass interface at Brewster angle. In the far-field zone, spins of photons are oppositely polarized in two…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 Yang Lv , Zefang Wang , Yu Jin , Mingtao Cao , Liang Han , Pei Zhang , Hongrong Li , Hong Gao , Fuli Li

Spin-polarizabilities are predicted by calculating the cross-section difference $\sigma_{3/2}-\sigma_{1/2}$ from available data for the resonance couplings $A_{3/2}$ and $A_{1/2}$ and CGLN amplitudes. The forward spin-polarizabilities are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-26 Martin Schumacher , M. I. Levchuk

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

By combining optical spin injection techniques with transport spectroscopy tools, we demonstrate a spin-photodetector allowing for the electrical measurement and active filtering of conduction band electron spin at room temperature in a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-03-01 F. Zhao , A. Balocchi , A. Kunold , J. Carrey , H. Carrère , T. Amand , N. Ben Abdallah , J. C. Harmand , X. Marie

The polarization of conduction electron spins due to an electrical current is observed in strained nonmagnetic semiconductors using static and time-resolved Faraday rotation. The density, lifetime, and orientation rate of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Kato , R. C. Myers , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

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

We report theoretical and experimental studies of ambipolar spin diffusion in a semiconductor. A circularly polarized laser pulse is used to excite spin-polarized carriers in a GaAs multiple quantum well sample at 80 K. Diffusion of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-31 Hui Zhao , Matt Mower , G. Vignale

We present a complete description of spin injection and detection in Fe/Al_xGa_{1-x}As/GaAs heterostructures for temperatures from 2 to 295 K. Measurements of the steady-state spin polarization in the semiconductor indicate three…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Adelmann , X. Lou , J. Strand , C. J. Palmstrom , P. A. Crowell

We derive a drift-diffusion equation for spin polarization in semiconductors by consistently taking into account electric-field effects and nondegenerate electron statistics. We identify a high-field diffusive regime which has no analogue…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. G. Yu , M. E. Flatte

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

Understanding and manipulating spin polarization and transport in the vicinity of semiconductor-hosted defects is a problem of present technological and fundamental importance. Here, we use high-field magnetic resonance to monitor the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 Yunpu Li , Jonathan P. King , Jeffrey A. Reimer , Carlos A. Meriles

We use optical transient-grating spectroscopy to measure spin diffusion of optically oriented electrons in bulk, semi-insulating GaAs(100). Trapping and recombination do not quickly deplete the photoexcited population. The spin diffusion…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-01 C. P. Weber , Craig A. Benko , Stanley C. Hiew

Spontaneous spin polarization of the electrical current flowing through nonmagnetic semiconductor junctions can be generated by carrier scattering processes that are independent of the carrier spin. The two required elements for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Michael E. Flatté

Circularly polarized optical excitation is used to demonstrate the efficient injection of spin-polarized excitons to individual self-assembled CdSe quantum dots in ZnSe barrier. The exciton spin-transfer is studied by means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-14 T. Smoleński , W. Pacuski , M. Goryca , M. Nawrocki , A. Golnik , P. Kossacki

The polarizabilities $\alpha$ (electric), $\beta$ (magnetic) and $\gamma_\pi$ (backward spin) of the nucleon are investigated in terms of degrees of freedom of the nucleon using recent results for the CGLN amplitudes and resonance couplings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-26 Martin Schumacher

We present measurements of electromagnetically induced transparency with an ensemble of donor- bound electrons in low-doped n-GaAs. We used optical transitions from the Zeeman-split electron spin states to a bound trion state in samples…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-11 Maksym Sladkov , A. U. Chaubal , M. P. Bakker , A. R. Onur , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , C. H. van der Wal

We report nearly complete preservation of "spin memory" between optical absorption and photoluminescence (PL) in nanometer slabs of GaSe pumped with up to 0.2 eV excess energy. At cryogenic temperatures, the initial degree of circular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-22 Yanhao Tang , Wei Xie , Krishna C. Mandal , John A. McGuire , Chih-Wei Lai