Spin Currents in Silicon

COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

Abstract

I will discuss the results of our recent spin injection experiments using long-distance non-degenerate undoped (and n-type doped) Si devices. We have a unique capability to recover the details of electron transport on a sub-ns timescale through a ``Larmor clock'' transformation of spin precession data, despite using only quasistatic current measurements. I suggest that this is potentially a new tool for probing non-equilibrium phenomena in semiconductors, revealing both intrinsic and extrinsic materials properties through sensitivity to subtleties of the bandstructure and impurity spectrum.

Authors

  • Ian Appelbaum

    Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, University of Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park