Semiconductor spintronics / by Jianbai Xia, Weikun Ge & Kai Chang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Xia, Jianbai, 1939-

Contributor:

Ge, Weikun.

Chang, Kai, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spintronics.

Semiconductors.

Physical Description:

xvi, 533 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; London : World Scientific, [2012]

Summary:

Semiconductor Spintronics, as an emerging research discipline and an important advanced field in physics, has developed quickly and obtained fruitful results in recent decades. This volume is the first monograph summarizing the physical foundation and the experimental results obtained in this field. With the culmination of the authors' extensive working experiences, this book presents the developing history of semiconductor spintronics, its basic concepts and theories, experimental results, and the prospected future development. This unique book intends to provide a systematic and modern foundation for semiconductor spintronics aimed at researchers, professors, post-doctorates, and graduate students, and to help them master the overall knowledge of spintronics.

Contents:

Introduction. Origin of spintronics : GMR effect device ; New materials for spintronics applications ; Spin injection and spin transport of electrons ; Optical modulation of spin coherence in semiconductors and nanostructures ; Spin electronic devices

Properties of magnetic ions in semiconductors. Electron configuration of magnetic ions ; Splitting of the basis state of free ions in the crystal field ; Crystal field theory ; Wave functions of many-electron states ; Equivalent operator method ; Magnetic ion energy levels in semiconductors ; Experimental study of the properties of magnetic ions in semiconductors

Properties of DMSs. Effective-mass theory of semiconductors in the magnetic field ; DMSs of a wide band gap ; Narrow bandgap DMSs ; Microstructures of DMSs ; Transport properties of DMSs ; Fe[symbol] ion-doped DMSs : Van Vleck paramagnetism ; Giant Faraday rotation and KR ; Light-induced magnetization

Ferromagnetic semiconductors. FMS Ga[symbol]Mn[symbol]As ; Other FMSs ; Fermi-level engineering ; Influence of clusters on ferromagnetism ; QDs of FMSs ; Mean-field theory of FMSs ; First-principle calculation of FMSs ; Magnetic polaron (MP) : a new mechanism of ferromagnetism

Injection of spin-polarized electrons. Spin lifetime and drift of electrons in semiconductors ; Rashba effect ; Semiconductor spin transistor and quantum waveguide theory ; Quantum waveguide theory of Rashba electrons ; Production and transport of spin-polarized current ; Magnetic semiconductor tunneling junction

Spin relaxation. SRTs T1 and T2 ; Elliot-Yafet relaxation mechanism ; Dyakonov-Perel relaxation mechanism ; Bir-Aronov-Pikus mechanism ; Experimental studies of spin relaxation ; Spin relaxation in quantum wells ; Electron spin relaxation studied by a kinetic spin Bloch equation

Rashba and Dresselhaus effects. Spin splitting induced by spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in inversion asymmetrical semiconductors : Rashba and Dresselhaus effects ; The SOI Hamiltonian in a Rashba system ; The Rashba effect and dispersion ; Rashba parameter [symbol] ; Deriving the Rashba coefficient [symbol] from the SdH oscillation ; Spin-related scattering and spin current

Optical responses of electron spins in semiconductors. Spin of Photon or polarization of light ; Spin conservation in optical transitions in semiconductors ; Spin photocurrent induced by optically injected electron spin in a spin splitting system ; Electric field-induced electron spin polarization in a spin-split system ; The experimental distinction and applications of the Rashba and Dresselhaus effects ; Spin electronic and opto-electronic devices

Manipulation of spin coherent electrons. Experimental methods ; Electron spin coherence in semiconductor bulk materials ; Electron spin coherence in semiconductor QDs ; Spatial movement of spin coherent electrons in semiconductors ; Spin hall effect ; Generation of spin current ; Spin dynamics in semiconductors ; Coherent manipulation of single spin in semiconductors ; Spin polarization and transport in silicon

Spin-polarized electron and domain wall transport. Spin transport in magnetic semiconductor 2DEG ; Spin transport through QDs ; Magnetic domain transport in magnetic semiconductors

Future quantum dot and quantum wire spintronics. Electron structure and g-Factor of QDs ; Electron structure and g-Factor of quantum wires ; Electric field tunable g-Factor in QDs ; Infuence of N doping on the Rashba coefficient and the g-Factor of electrons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789814327909

9814327905

OCLC:

768072908