Researchers report breakthrough that enables practical semiconductor spintronics

Phys.org  April 8, 2021
By remote spin filtering of InAs quantum-dot electrons via an adjacent tunnelling-coupled GaNAs spin filter an international team of researchers (Sweden, Finland, Japan) demonstrated successful generation of conduction electron spin polarization exceeding 90% at room temperature without a magnetic field in a non-magnetic all-semiconductor nanostructure, which remains high even up to 110 °C. They also showed that the quantum-dot electron spin can be remotely manipulated by spin control in the adjacent spin filter, paving the way for remote spin encoding and writing of quantum memory as well as for remote spin control of spin–photon interfaces. This work demonstrates the feasibility to implement opto-spintronic functionality in common semiconductor nanostructures…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE

Principle of the defect-enabled remote spin filtering. Credit: Nature Photonics (2021)

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