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Spintronics study in III-V semiconductors

Prof. Cui Xiaodong, University of Hong Kong
Tue, 2011-06-07 15:00 - 16:00
Room 111, Physics Building

In this talk, I report our experimental research on spintronics in nonmagnetic III-V semiconductors. We observe magneto-electric photocurrent generated via direct inter-band transitionsin an InGaAs/InAlAs two-dimensional electron gas by a linearly polarized incident light. The electric current is proportional to the in-plane magnetic field, which unbalances the velocities of the photoexcited carriers with opposite spins and consequently generates the electric current from a hidden spin photocurrent. The spin photocurrent can be evaluated from the measured electric current, and the conversion coefficient of spin photocurrent to electric current is self-consistently estimated to be 10-3~ 10-2 per Tesla. The observed light polarization dependence of the electric current is well explained by a theoretical model which reveals the wave vector angle dependence of the photoexcited carrier density.