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 …

Interplay of Rashba/Dresselhaus spin splittings probed by photogalvanic spectroscopy–A review

SD Ganichev, LE Golub - physica status solidi (b), 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The paper reviews the interplay of Rashba/Dresselhaus spin splittings in various two‐
dimensional systems made of zinc‐blende III–V, wurtzite, and SiGe semiconductors. We …

Giant Rashba-type spin splitting in ferroelectric GeTe (111)

M Liebmann, C Rinaldi, D Di Sante, J Kellner… - Advanced …, 2016 - re.public.polimi.it
Photoelectron spectroscopy in combination with piezoforce microscopy reveals that the
helicity of Rashba bands is coupled to the nonvolatile ferroelectric polarization of GeTe …

Ballistic superconductivity and tunable π–junctions in InSb quantum wells

CT Ke, CM Moehle, FK de Vries, C Thomas… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Planar Josephson junctions (JJs) made in semiconductor quantum wells with large
spin-orbit coupling are capable of hosting topological superconductivity. Indium antimonide …

Fabrication and electrical properties of graphene nanoribbons

J Bai, Y Huang - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2010 - Elsevier
Graphene is a semimetal with a zero band gap, and therefore cannot be used for effective
field-effect transistors (FETs) at room temperature. Theoretical study predicted an …

Quantized Conductance and Large g-Factor Anisotropy in InSb Quantum Point Contacts

F Qu, J Van Veen, FK De Vries, AJA Beukman… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Because of a strong spin–orbit interaction and a large Landé g-factor, InSb plays an
important role in research on Majorana fermions. To further explore novel properties of …

Proximity-induced triplet superconductivity in Rashba materials

CR Reeg, DL Maslov - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We study a proximity junction between a conventional s-wave superconductor and a
conductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, with a specific focus on the spin structure of the …

Interplay of spin–orbit coupling and Coulomb interaction in ZnO-based electron system

D Maryenko, M Kawamura, A Ernst, VK Dugaev… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Spin–orbit coupling (SOC) is pivotal for various fundamental spin-dependent phenomena in
solids and their technological applications. In semiconductors, these phenomena have been …

Spin-orbit coupling and electron scattering in high-quality quantum wells

S Metti, C Thomas, D Xiao, MJ Manfra - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
InSb 1− x As x is a promising material system for exploration of topological superconductivity
in hybrid superconductor/semiconductor devices due to its large effective g-factor and …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for spin to charge conversion in GeTe (111)

C Rinaldi, JC Rojas-Sánchez, RN Wang, Y Fu… - APL Materials, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
GeTe has been predicted to be the father compound of a new class of multifunctional
materials, ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors, displaying a coupling between spin …