Spintronics: Fundamentals and applications

I Žutić, J Fabian, SD Sarma - Reviews of modern physics, 2004 - APS
Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin
degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this …

Spin dynamics in semiconductors

MW Wu, JH Jiang, MQ Weng - Physics Reports, 2010 - Elsevier
This article reviews the current status of spin dynamics in semiconductors which has
achieved much progress in the recent years due to the fast growing field of semiconductor …

Semiconductor spintronics

J Fabian, A Matos-Abiague, C Ertler, P Stano… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2007 - arxiv.org
Spintronics refers commonly to phenomena in which the spin of electrons in a solid state
environment plays the determining role. In a more narrow sense spintronics is an emerging …

The phenomena of spin-filter tunnelling

JS Moodera, TS Santos… - Journal of Physics …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The spin filtering phenomenon allows one to obtain highly spin-polarized charge carriers
generated from nonmagnetic electrodes using magnetic tunnel barriers. The exponential …

Concepts for spin injection into semiconductors—a review

G Schmidt - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
Spintronics is a topic that has raised a lot of interest during the past years. The transport and
manipulation of spin polarized electrons or holes in semiconductors offers a huge potential …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in III-V based ferromagnetic semiconductors: Band structure, Fermi level, and tunneling transport

M Tanaka, S Ohya, P Nam Hai - Applied Physics Reviews, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Spin-based electronics or spintronics is an emerging field, in which we try to utilize spin
degrees of freedom as well as charge transport in materials and devices. While metal-based …

Semiclassical spin transport in spin-orbit-coupled bands

D Culcer, J Sinova, NA Sinitsyn, T Jungwirth… - Physical review …, 2004 - APS
Motivated by recent interest in novel spintronics effects, we develop a semiclassical theory of
spin transport that is valid for spin-orbit coupled bands. Aside from the obvious convective …

Observation of pairwise level degeneracies and the quantum regime of the Arrhenius law in a double-well parametric oscillator

NE Frattini, RG Cortiñas, J Venkatraman, X Xiao, Q Su… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
By applying a microwave drive to a specially designed Josephson circuit, we have realized
a double-well model system: a Kerr oscillator submitted to a squeezing force. We have …

Tunable spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas modulated by a ferromagnetic metal stripe and a Schottky metal stripe

F Zhai, HQ Xu, Y Guo - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2004 - APS
We report on a theoretical study of the spin-dependent electron transport in a two-
dimensional electron gas (2DEG) modulated by a stripe of ferromagnetic metal and a stripe …

Spin Hall and spin-diagonal conductivity in the presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling

NA Sinitsyn, EM Hankiewicz, W Teizer, J Sinova - Physical Review B …, 2004 - APS
We investigate the spin-current linear response conductivity tensor to an electric field in a
paramagnetic two-dimensional electron gas with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit …