Spin Injection Enhancement Through Schottky Barrier Superlattice Design

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2009-09-25

arxiv.org/abs/0909.4594v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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We predict it is possible to achieve high-efficiency room-temperature spin injection from a mag- netic metal into InAs-based semiconductors using an engineered Schottky barrier based on an InAs/AlSb superlattice. The Schottky barrier with most metals is negative for InAs and positive for AlSb. For such metals there exist InAs/AlSb superlattices with a conduction band edge perfectly aligned with the metal's Fermi energy. The initial AlSb layer can be grown to the thickness required to produce a desired interface resistance. We show that the conductivity and spin lifetimes of such superlattices are sufficiently high to permit efficient spin injection from ferromagnetic metals.

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