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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

It is shown that the Kerr rotation of spin-polarized electrons is modulated by the distance of the electrons from the sample surface. Time-resolved Kerr rotation of optically-excited spin-polarized electrons in the depletion layer of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Salis , S. F. Alvarado

A scheme is proposed to electrically measure the spin-momentum coupling in the topological insulator surface state by injection of spin polarized electrons from silicon. As a first approach, devices were fabricated consisting of thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Ojeda-Aristizabal , M. S. Fuhrer , N. P Butch , J. Paglione , I. Appelbaum

We calculate the current spin polarisation and the interface resistance of Fe/GaAs and Fe/ZnSe (001) spin injection junctions from first principles, including also the possibility of a Schottky barrier. From our results of interface…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Olaf Wunnicke , Phivos Mavropoulos , Peter H. Dederichs

We treat the spin injection and extraction via a ferromagnetic metal/semiconductor Schottky barrier as a quantum scattering problem. This enables the theory to explain a number of phenomena involving spin-dependent current through the…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-20 L. Cywinski , H. Dery , P. Dalal , L. J. Sham

We study spin transport in forward and reverse biased junctions between a ferromagnetic metal and a degenerate semiconductor with a delta-doped layer near the interface at relatively low temperatures. We show that spin polarization of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. V. Osipov , A. M. Bratkovsky

We consider spin dynamics in the impurity band of a semiconductor with spin-split spectrum. Due to the splitting, phonon-assisted hops from one impurity to another are accompanied by rotation of the electron spin, which leads to spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 I. S. Lyubinskiy , A. P. Dmitriev , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

Based on a Monte Carlo method, we investigate the influence of transport conditions on the electron spin relaxation in GaAs. The decay of initial electron spin polarization is calculated as a function of distance under the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. A. Barry , A. A. Kiselev , K. W. Kim

Using a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) structure with a high-quality CoFe/n^+Si contact, we systematically study spin injection and spin accumulation in a nondegenerated Si channel with a doping density of ~…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-16 K. Hamaya , Y. Ando , K. Masaki , Y. Maeda , Y. Fujita , S. Yamada , K. Sawano , M. Miyao

We predict it is possible to achieve high-efficiency room-temperature spin injection from a mag- netic metal into InAs-based semiconductors using an engineered Schottky barrier based on an InAs/AlSb superlattice. The Schottky barrier with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-28 Joseph Pingenot , Michael E. Flatté

The role of the tunneling mechanisms in metal-disordered layer-semiconductor structure under spin injection at the interface is investigated. The non-ideal metal-semiconductor structure as prepared by ionized cluster beam deposition is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Korosak , B. Cvikl

One-dimensional quantum wires are considered as prospective elements for spin transport and manipulation in spintronics. We study spin dynamics in semiconductor GaAs-like nanowires with disorder and spin-orbit interaction by using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Carlos Echeverría-Arrondo , E. Ya. Sherman

We study the spin polarization of tunneling holes injected from ferromagnetic GaMnAs into a p-doped semiconductor through a tunneling barrier. We obtain an upper limit to the spin injection rate. We find that spin-orbit interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 L. Brey , J. Fernandez-Rossier , C. Tejedor

We investigate effect of a step-doping profile on the spin injection from a ferromagnetic metal contact into a semiconductor quantum well (QW) in spin FETs using a Monte Carlo model. The considered scheme uses a heavily doped layer at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Min Shen , Semion Saikin , Ming-Cheng Cheng

In this letter, the first spin noise spectroscopy measurements in semiconductor systems of reduced effective dimensionality are reported. The non-demolition measurement technique gives access to the otherwise concealed intrinsic, low…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-06-23 Georg M. Müller , Michael Römer , Dieter Schuh , Werner Wegscheider , Jens Hübner , Michael Oestreich

We report on both experimental and theoretical study of conduction-electron spin polarization dynamics achieved by pulsed optical pumping at room temperature in GaAs(1-x)N(x) alloys with a small nitrogen content (x = 2.1, 2.7, 3.4%). It is…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 V. K. Kalevich , A. Yu. Shiryaev , E. L. Ivchenko , A. Yu. Egorov , L. Lombez , D. Lagarde , X. Marie , T. Amand

We have studied hyperfine interactions between spin-polarized electrons and lattice nuclei in Al_0.1Ga_0.9As/GaAs quantum well (QW) heterostructures. The spin-polarized electrons are electrically injected into the semiconductor…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Strand , X. Lou , C. Adelmann , B. D. Schultz , A. F. Isakovic , C. J. Palmstrom , P. A. Crowell

We present a theory of the imprinting of the electron spin coherence and population in an n-doped semiconductor which forms a junction with a ferromagnet. The reflection of non-equilibrium semiconductor electrons at the interface provides a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Ciuti , J. P. McGuire , L. J. Sham

We develop a semiclassical kinetic theory for electron spin relaxation in semiconductors. Our approach accounts for elastic as well as inelastic scattering and treats Elliott-Yafet and motional-narrowing processes, such as D'yakonov-Perel'…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Franz X. Bronold , Avadh Saxena , Darryl L. Smith

We have demonstrated by electroluminescence the injection of spin polarized electrons through Co/Al2O3/GaAs tunnel barrier into p-doped InAs/GaAs quantum dots embedded in a PIN GaAs light emitting diode. The spin relaxation processes in the…