Spin injection through the depletion layer: a theory of spin-polarized p-n junctions and solar cells
arXiv:cond-mat/0103473 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.64.121201
Abstract
A drift-diffusion model for spin-charge transport in spin-polarized {\it p-n} junctions is developed and solved numerically for a realistic set of material parameters based on GaAs. It is demonstrated that spin polarization can be injected through the depletion layer by both minority and majority carriers, making all-semiconductor devices such as spin-polarized solar cells and bipolar transistors feasible. Spin-polarized {\it p-n} junctions allow for spin-polarized current generation, spin amplification, voltage control of spin polarization, and a significant extension of spin diffusion range.
4 pages, 3 figures
References in corpus (1)
Cited by in corpus (35)
- Spintronics: Fundamentals and applications
- Non-ballistic spin field-effect transistor
- Semiconductor Spintronics
- Efficient Electrical Spin Injection from a Magnetic Metal / Tunnel Barrier Contact into a Semiconductor
- Spin-polarized transport in inhomogeneous magnetic semiconductors: theory of magnetic/nonmagnetic p-n junctions
- Spin diffusion and injection in semiconductor structures: Electric field effects
- Magnetic bipolar transistor
- Theory of spin-polarized bipolar transport in magnetic p-n junctions
- Spin Modulation in Semiconductor Lasers
- Mapping between quantum dot and quantum well lasers: From conventional to spin lasers
- Variational study of the nu=1 quantum Hall ferromagnet in the presence of spin-orbit interaction
- Spin-Lasers: Spintronics Beyond Magnetoresistance
- Analytical Model of Spin-Polarized Semiconductor Lasers
- Kinetic theory of spin transport in n-typed semiconductor quantum wells
- Spin-polarized current amplification and spin injection in magnetic bipolar transistors
- Longitudinal spin decoherence in spin diffusion in semiconductors
- Proposal for all-electrical measurement of T_1 in semiconductors
- Violation of Quasineutrality in Semiconductor Transport: The Dember Effect
- Spin transport in inhomogeneous magnetic fields: a proposal for Stern-Gerlach-like experiments with conduction electrons
- Bipolar spintronics: From spin injection to spin-controlled logic
- Spin oscillations in transient diffusion of a spin pulse in n-type semiconductor quantum wells
- Spin relaxation in -type GaAs quantum wells with transient spin grating
- Spin-orbitronics at a topological insulator-semiconductor interface
- Probing Tunneling Spin Injection into Graphene via Bias Dependence
- Theory of the ac spin-valve effect
- Self-consistent model of spin accumulation magnetoresistance in ferromagnet-insulator-semiconductor tunnel junctions
- Effect of electrical bias on spin transport across a magnetic domain wall
- Gate-tunable spin exclusive or operation in a silicon-based spin device at room temperature
- Diffusion in Flashing Periodic Potentials
- Voltage controlled spin precession in InAs quantum wells
- Polarization response of spin-lasers under amplitude modulation
- The shape of the Hanle curve in spin-transport structures in the presence of the ac drive
- Optical orientation in bipolar spintronic devices
- Experimental Demonstration Of Scanned Spin-Precession Microscopy
- Optically induced spin electromotive force in ferromagnetic-semiconductor quantum well structure