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 …

Ferromagnetism and possible application in spintronics of transition-metal-doped ZnO films

F Pan, C Song, XJ Liu, YC Yang, F Zeng - Materials Science and …, 2008 - Elsevier
This review article first presents a summary of current understanding of the magnetic
properties and intrinsic ferromagnetism of transition-metal (TM)-doped ZnO films, which are …

Vectorized optoelectronic control and metrology in a semiconductor

S Sederberg, F Kong, F Hufnagel, C Zhang, E Karimi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The increasingly prominent role of light in information processing makes optoelectronic
devices a technology of fundamental importance. Coherent control of currents in …

Pure spin photocurrent in non-centrosymmetric crystals: bulk spin photovoltaic effect

H Xu, H Wang, J Zhou, J Li - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Spin current generators are critical components for spintronics-based information
processing. In this work, we theoretically and computationally investigate the bulk spin …

Nonlinear spin current and magnetoresistance of molecular tunnel junctions

D Waldron, P Haney, B Larade, A MacDonald, H Guo - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
We report on a theoretical study of spin-polarized quantum transport through a Ni-
bezenedithiol (BDT)-Ni molecular magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). Our study is based on …

[BOOK][B] Extreme nonlinear optics: an introduction

M Wegener - 2006 - books.google.com
Following the birth of the laser in 1960, the field of" nonlinear optics" rapidly emerged.
Today, laser intensities and pulse durations are readily available, for which the concepts …

Pure spin current generation via photogalvanic effect with spatial inversion symmetry

X Tao, P Jiang, H Hao, X Zheng, L Zhang, Z Zeng - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We propose a new idea to generate pure spin current with photogalvanic effect (PGE) by
designing devices with spatial inversion symmetry based on two-dimensional spin …

Femtosecond spectroscopy in semiconductors: a key to coherences, correlations and quantum kinetics

VM Axt, T Kuhn - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
The application of femtosecond spectroscopy to the study of ultrafast dynamics in
semiconductor materials and nanostructures is reviewed with particular emphasis on the …

Perfect spin Seebeck effect, spin-valve, spin-filter and spin-rectification based on the heterojunction of sawtooth graphene and graphyne nanoribbons

Y Ni, H Hua, J Li, N Hu - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In order to develop low-power-consumption electronic devices, we studied a heterojunction
composed of a 5, 4-sawtooth graphene nanoribbon and 6, 6, 12-graphyne nanoribbon by …

Coherence control of Hall charge and spin currents

H Zhao, EJ Loren, HM Van Driel, AL Smirl - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
Using two-color optical coherence control techniques in intrinsic GaAs at 80 K with
orthogonally polarized 70 fs, 1430 and 715 nm pulses, we generate a pure spin source …