The Silicon Inversion Layer With A Ferromagnetic Gate: A Novel Spin Source

Details The Silicon Inversion Layer With A Ferromagnetic Gate: A Novel Spin Source The Silicon Inversion Layer With A Ferromagnetic Gate: A Novel Spin Source

2003-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310259v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

6 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1651797

Novel spin transport behavior is theoretically shown to result from replacing the usual metal (or poly-silicon) gate in a silicon field-effect transistor with a ferromagnet, separated from the semiconductor by an ultra-thin oxide. The spin-dependent interplay between the drift current (due to a source-drain bias) and the diffusion current (due to carrier leakage into the ferromagnetic gate) results in a rich variety of spin dependence in the current that flows through such a device. We examine two cases of particular interest: (1) creating a 100% spin-polarized electrical current and (2) creating a pure spin current without a net electrical current. A spin-valve consisting of two sequential ferromagnetic gates is shown to exhibit magnetoresistance dependent upon the relative orientations of the magnetization of the two ferromagnets. The magnetoresistance ratio grows to arbitrarily large values in the regime of low source-drain bias, and is limited only by the spin-flip time in the channel.

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