Electrical spin injection and transport in semiconductor nanowires: challenges, progress and perspectives

J Tang, KL Wang - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Spintronic devices are of fundamental interest for their nonvolatility and great potential for
low-power electronics applications. The implementation of those devices usually favors …

Electrical spin injection and transport in germanium

Y Zhou, W Han, LT Chang, F Xiu, M Wang… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We report the first experimental demonstration of electrical spin injection, transport, and
detection in bulk germanium (Ge). The nonlocal magnetoresistance (MR) in n-type Ge is …

Investigating the origin of Fermi level pinning in Ge Schottky junctions using epitaxially grown ultrathin MgO films

Y Zhou, W Han, Y Wang, F Xiu, J Zou… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Fermi level (FL) pinning at the Ge valence band results in a high Schottky barrier height for
all metal/n-Ge contacts. The origin of this pinning effect has been ascribed to either metal …

Electrical Spin Injection and Detection in Mn5Ge3/Ge/Mn5Ge3 Nanowire Transistors

J Tang, CY Wang, LT Chang, Y Fan, T Nie, M Chan… - Nano …, 2013 - ACS Publications
In this Letter, we report the electrical spin injection and detection in Ge nanowire transistors
with single-crystalline ferromagnetic Mn5Ge3 as source/drain contacts formed by thermal …

Ferromagnetic germanide in Ge nanowire transistors for spintronics application

J Tang, CY Wang, MH Hung, X Jiang, LT Chang, L He… - ACS …, 2012 - ACS Publications
To explore spintronics applications for Ge nanowire heterostructures formed by thermal
annealing, it is critical to develop a ferromagnetic germanide with high Curie temperature …

Ge‐Based Spin‐Photodiodes for Room‐Temperature Integrated Detection of Photon Helicity

C Rinaldi, M Cantoni, D Petti, A Sottocorno… - Advanced …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Spin-optoelectronics is a novel research area at the crossroads between the fundamental
physics of quantum-mechanical spin, optoelectronics, and nanotechnology.[1] Spin-and light …

Epitaxial EuO thin films on GaAs

AG Swartz, J Ciraldo, JJI Wong, Y Li, W Han… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate the epitaxial growth of EuO on GaAs by reactive molecular beam epitaxy.
Thin films are grown in an adsorption-controlled regime with the aid of an MgO diffusion …

Progress towards spin-based light emission in group iv semiconductors

S De Cesari, E Vitiello, A Giorgioni, F Pezzoli - Electronics, 2017 - mdpi.com
Spin-optoelectronics is an emerging technology in which novel and advanced functionalities
are enabled by the synergetic integration of magnetic, optical and electronic properties onto …

Comparison of spin lifetimes in n-Ge characterized between three-terminal and four-terminal nonlocal Hanle measurements

LT Chang, W Han, Y Zhou, J Tang… - Semiconductor …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We compared the temperature dependence of spin lifetime in n-Ge characterized from three-
terminal (3T) and four-terminal (4T) Hanle measurements using single-crystalline Fe/MgO/n …

Spin transport in Ge nanowires for diluted magnetic semiconductor-based nonvolatile transpinor

J Tang, T Nie, KL Wang - ECS Transactions, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Spintronic devices, in particular spin field-effect transistors (spinFETs), have been
researched for decades as a promising candidate to replace Si transistors with potentially …