Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in GaAs by electrical spin injection

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We propose to measure the dynamic nuclear polarization in a GaAs-based structure caused by electrical injection of a spin-polarized current using polarized neutron reflectometry. The nuclear polarization caused by spin polarized electrons has been studied by mainly optical means. Effective magnetic fields of up to 0.4 T have been found. However, the techniques tend to probe the whole depth of the sample. We wish to use polarized neutron reflectometry to obtain a depth profile of the nuclear polarization. The sample proposed is an LED structure in GaAs where the dynamic nuclear polarization from electrical current injection from a 5 nm Fe film can be measured in the quantum well. This will require us to measure at low temperature whilst an electrical current is passed through the sample.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24091174
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24091174
Provenance
Creator Dr Crispin Barnes; Dr Rhodri Mansell; Dr Nina-Juliane Steinke; Dr Stuart Holmes; Mr David Love; Dr Razan Aboljadayel; Mr Peter Newton
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2016
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2013-08-04T13:04:40Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-10-09T08:18:58Z