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Spin-controlled lasers are highly interesting photonic devices and have been shown to provide ultra-fast polarization dynamics in excess of 200 GHz. In contrast to conventional semiconductor lasers their temporal properties are not limited…

Spin injection efficiency based on conventional ferromagnet (or half-metallic ferromagnet) /semiconductor is greatly limited by the Schmidt obstacle due to conductivity mismatch, here we proposed that by replacing the metallic injectors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 G. Z. Xu , W. H. Wang , X. M. Zhang , Y. Wang , E. K. Liu , X. K. Xi , G. H. Wu

The distribution is calculated of the electron spin polarization under current-driven spin injection from a probe to a ferromagnetic film. It is shown that the main parameters determining difference of the spin polarization from the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-12-15 S. G. Chigarev , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , A. I. Panas , V. G. Shofman , P. E. Zilberman

In solid_state hybrid electron_nuclear spin systems quantum entanglement plays vital role in allowing accessible transfer of information between subatomic particles, regardless of the host lattice coordination spatial geometry, revealing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Vesna Berec , J. S. Braunstein

We report on optical orientation of Mn^2+ in bulk GaAs under application of weak longitudinal magnetic field (B <= 100 mT). The manganese spin polarization of 25% is directly evaluated using spin flip Raman scattering spectroscopy. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-08 I. A. Akimov , R. I. Dzhioev , V. L. Korenev , Yu. G. Kusrayev , V. F. Sapega , D. R. Yakovlev , M. Bayer

We report here on anisotropy of spin polarization obtained in lateral all-semiconductor all-electrical spin injection devices, employing $p^{+}-$(Ga,Mn)As/$n^{+}-$GaAs Esaki diode structures as spin aligning contacts, resulting from the…

We show that the degree of spin polarization of photoelectrons from the surface states of topological insulators is 100% if fully-polarized light is used as in typical photoemission measurements, and hence can be significantly "higher" than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 Cheol-Hwan Park , Steven G. Louie

A full band-structure ab initio calculation of the degree of spin polarization (DSP) in stressed bulk Si and bulk GaAs is reported. For Si, we found that compressive stress causes the DSP signal peak to decrease slightly in magnitude and to…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-05 Jose Luis Cabellos , Cuauhtemoc Salazar , Bernardo S. Mendoza

Electrical injection and detection of spin-polarized electrons is demonstrated for the first time in a single wafer, all-semiconductor, GaAs-based lateral spintronic device, employing p+-(Ga,Mn)As/n+-GaAs ferromagnetic Esaki diodes as spin…

We present a method to create spin-polarized beams of ballistic electrons in a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. Scattering of a spin-unpolarized injected beam from a lithographic barrier leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Chen , J. J. Heremans , J. A. Peters , J. P. Dulka , A. O. Govorov , N. Goel , S. J. Chung , M. B. Santos

Spin injection is a powerful experimental probe into a wealth of nonequilibrium spin-dependent phenomena displayed by materials with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Here, we develop a theory of coupled spin-charge diffusive transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Yu-Hsuan Lin , Chunli Huang , Manuel Offidani , Aires Ferreira , Miguel A. Cazalilla

The spin state of holes bound to Mn acceptors in GaMnAs is investigated by optical spectroscopy. Concentrations of Mn from 10^17 to 10^19 cm^-3 were studied as a function of magnetic field and temperature. The photoluminescence from…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Lakshmi , G. Favrot , D. Heiman

We have studied spin dephasing and spin diffusion in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system, embedded in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well grown in the [110] direction, by a two-beam Hanle experiment. For very low excitation density, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-01 R. Völkl , M. Griesbeck , S. A. Tarasenko , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , C. Schüller , T. Korn

We report spin amplification using a capacitive beam splitter in n-type GaAs where the spin polarization is monitored via transverse electron focusing measurement. It is shown that partially spin-polarized current injected by the emitter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-29 Chengyu Yan , Sanjeev Kumar , Kalarikad Thomas , Patrick See , Ian Farrer , David Ritchie , Jonathan Griffiths , Geraint Jones , Michael Pepper

The theoretical possibility to use an electron microscope as a spin polarizer is studied. It turns out that a Bessel beam passing a standard magnetic objective lens is intrinsically spin polarized. In the limit of infinitely small detectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Peter Schattschneider , Vincenzo Grillo

We investigate the spin-polarization of the ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As by point contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy. The conductance spectra are analyzed using a recent theoretical model that accounts for momentum- and…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-02-21 S. Piano , R. Grein , C. J. Mellor , K. Vyborny , R. Campion , M. Wang , M. Eschrig , B. L. Gallagher

The spin polarization of electrons from multiphoton ionization of Xe by 395 nm circularly polarized laser pulses at $6\cdot10^{13}$ W/cm$^2$ has been measured. At this photon energy of 3.14 eV the above threshold ionization peaks connected…

We report direct measurements of the spin-orbit interaction induced spin-splitting in a modulation-doped GaAs two-dimensional hole system as a function of anisotropic, in-plane strain. The change in spin-subband densities reveals a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 B. Habib , J. Shabani , E. P. De Poortere , M. Shayegan , R. Winkler

We have studied experimentally and theoretically the optical orientation and spin-dependent Shockley-Read-Hall recombination in a semiconductor in a magnetic field at an arbitrary angle between the field and circularly polarized exciting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 E. L. Ivchenko , L. A. Bakaleinikov , M. M. Afanasiev , V. K. Kalevich

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