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铁磁/半导体结构中自旋积累的电学表达式

Electrical expression of spin accumulation in ferromagnet/semiconductor structures

L. Cywinski, H. Dery, P. Dalal, L. J. Sham

摘要:

我们将通过铁磁金属/半导体肖特基势垒的自旋注入和提取视为量子散射问题。这使得该理论能够解释一些涉及通过肖特基势垒的自旋相关电流的现象,特别是由于最近实验中看到的电流提取而导致的半导体中的反直觉自旋极化方向。这种现象的一个可能的解释涉及到考虑到自旋相关的非弹性散射通过界面区域中的束缚态。通过界面的自旋输运的量子力学处理耦合在相邻介质中的半经典描述的运输,在其中,我们考虑到在实验中使用的平面几何中沿界面的面内自旋扩散。该理论形成了计算多终端系统中自旋相关电流的基础,该系统由具有许多铁磁接触的半导体沟道组成,其中由自旋注入/提取产生的自旋累积可以通过电气手段有效地感测。三端系统可以用作磁存储器单元,其中信息位编码在其中一个触点的磁化中。使用五个端子,我们构建了一个可重新编程的逻辑门,其中逻辑输入和功能被编码在四个端子的磁化中,而第五个端子的电流给出了操作的结果。

英文摘要:

We treat the spin injection and extraction via a ferromagnetic metal/semiconductor Schottky barrier as a quantum scattering problem. This enables the theory to explain a number of phenomena involving spin-dependent current through the Schottky barrier, especially the counter-intuitive spin polarization direction in the semiconductor due to current extraction seen in recent experiments. A possible explanation of this phenomenon involves taking into account the spin-dependent inelastic scattering via the bound states in the interface region. The quantum-mechanical treatment of spin transport through the interface is coupled with the semiclassical description of transport in the adjoining media, in which we take into account the in-plane spin diffusion along the interface in the planar geometry used in experiments. The theory forms the basis of the calculation of spin-dependent current flow in multi-terminal systems, consisting of a semiconductor channel with many ferromagnetic contacts attached, in which the spin accumulation created by spin injection/extraction can be efficiently sensed by electrical means. A three-terminal system can be used as a magnetic memory cell with the bit of information encoded in the magnetization of one of the contacts. Using five terminals we construct a reprogrammable logic gate, in which the logic inputs and the functionality are encoded in magnetizations of the four terminals, while the current out of the fifth one gives a result of the operation.

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