Spin‐Controlled Vertical‐Cavity Surface‐Emitting Lasers

NC Gerhardt, MR Hofmann - Advances in Optical Technologies, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We discuss the concept of spin‐controlled vertical‐cavity surface‐emitting lasers (VCSELs)
and analyze it with respect to potential room‐temperature applications in spin …

Controlling the helicity of light by electrical magnetization switching

PA Dainone, NF Prestes, P Renucci, A Bouché… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Controlling the intensity of emitted light and charge current is the basis of transferring and
processing information. By contrast, robust information storage and magnetic random …

Epitaxial Mn2. 5Ga thin films with giant perpendicular magnetic anisotropy for spintronic devices

F Wu, S Mizukami, D Watanabe, H Naganuma… - Applied Physics …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We report on epitaxial growth and magnetic properties of Mn 2.5 Ga thin films, which were
deposited on Cr/MgO single crystal substrates by magnetron sputtering. X-ray diffraction …

Self-polarized spin-nanolasers

JY Chen, TM Wong, CW Chang, CY Dong… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Besides adding a new functionality to conventional lasers, spin-polarized lasers can,
potentially, offer lower threshold currents and reach higher emission intensities. However, to …

Perpendicularly magnetized τ-MnAl (001) thin films epitaxied on GaAs

SH Nie, LJ Zhu, J Lu, D Pan, HL Wang, XZ Yu… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Perpendicularly magnetized τ-MnAl films have been epitaxied on GaAs (001) by molecular-
beam epitaxy. Crystalline quality and magnetic properties of the samples were strongly …

Large and robust electrical spin injection into GaAs at zero magnetic field using an ultrathin CoFeB/MgO injector

SH Liang, TT Zhang, P Barate, J Frougier, M Vidal… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
Binary information encoded within the spin of carriers can be transferred into corresponding
right-or left-handed circularly polarized photons emitted from an active semiconductor …

Optical spin manipulation of electrically pumped vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

S Hövel, A Bischoff, NC Gerhardt, MR Hofmann… - Applied Physics …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We analyze the potential for the spin manipulation of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
(VCSELs) by operating them electrically and injecting additional spin-polarized carriers by …

Birefringence controlled room-temperature picosecond spin dynamics close to the threshold of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser devices

MY Li, H Jähme, H Soldat, NC Gerhardt… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
We analyze the spin-induced circular polarization dynamics at the threshold of vertical-cavity
surface-emitting lasers at room-temperature using a hybrid excitation combining electrically …

Room temperature electrical spin injection in remanence

S Hövel, NC Gerhardt, MR Hofmann, FY Lo… - Applied Physics …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate electrical spin injection from ferromagnetic Fe/Tb multilayer structures with
remanent perpendicular magnetization into GaAs-based light-emitting diodes at room …

Cross-sectional imaging of spin injection into a semiconductor

P Kotissek, M Bailleul, M Sperl, A Spitzer, D Schuh… - Nature Physics, 2007 - nature.com
Recent discoveries of phenomena that relate electronic transport in solids to the spin
angular momentum of the electrons are the fundamentals of spin electronics (spintronics) …