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自旋电子学展望:磁共振隧穿、自旋轨道耦合和GaMnAs

Perspectives in spintronics: magnetic resonant tunneling, spin-orbit coupling, and GaMnAs

C. Ertler, A. Matos-Abiague, M. Gmitra, M. Turek, J. Fabian

摘要:

自旋电子学因其兼具电荷和自旋的功能而受到人们的广泛关注。虽然在过去几年中分支到新的领域并创造新的主题,但主要目标仍然是电特性的自旋和磁控制,基本上是I-V特性,反之亦然。实现这些目标面临着巨大的挑战。一个挑战是找到铁磁半导体的利基应用,如GaMnAs。另一个是进一步发展铁磁金属/半导体混合异质结构的科学,作为全半导体室温自旋电子学的替代品。在这里,我们介绍了我们最近为应对此类挑战而采取的有代表性的措施。我们展示了如何通过结合两个磁共振二极管,或如何引入铁磁半导体作为共振隧穿二极管的有源区,导致数字磁阻和磁电电流振荡的新的efficts的数字磁阻。通过引入自旋轨道耦合场的概念,我们讨论了Fe/GaAs结中的隧穿各向异性磁电阻现象,并将其与全半导体结中的自旋轨道耦合场进行了类比。最后,我们看看基本的电子和光学性质的GaMnAs通过采用合理的紧束缚模型来研究无序效应。

英文摘要:

Spintronics has attracted wide attention by promising novel functionalities derived from both the electron charge and spin. While branching into new areas and creating new themes over the past years, the principal goals remain the spin and magnetic control of the electrical properties, essentially the I-V characteristics, and vice versa. There are great challenges ahead to meet these goals. One challenge is to find niche applications for ferromagnetic semiconductors, such as GaMnAs. Another is to develop further the science of hybrid ferromagnetic metal/semiconductor heterostructures, as alternatives to all-semiconductor room temperature spintronics. Here we present our representative recent efiorts to address such challenges. We show how to make a digital magnetoresistor by combining two magnetic resonant diodes, or how introducing ferromagnetic semiconductors as active regions in resonant tunneling diodes leads to novel efiects of digital magnetoresistance and of magnetoelectric current oscillations. We also discuss the phenomenon of tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance in Fe/GaAs junctions by introducing the concept of the spin-orbit coupling field, as an analog of such fields in all-semiconductor junctions. Finally, we look at fundamental electronic and optical properties of GaMnAs by employing reasonable tight-binding models to study disorder efiects.

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