Silicon spintronics.

Valley Splitting and Spin Lifetime Enhancement in Strained Silicon Heterostructures

Semiconductor spintronics is promising because it potentially allows creating data storages and processing elements that are smaller and consume less energy than present charge-based microelectronic devices. Silicon is an ideal material for spintronic applications due to the long spin lifetime in the bulk material. However, large spin relaxation was experimentally observed in gated silicon stru...

Interface engineering of spin - tunnel contacts to silicon Towards silicon - based spintronic devices

Spin Lifetime Enhancement by Shear Strain in Thin Silicon-On-Insulator Films

Spintronics attracts at present much interest because of the potential to build novel spin-based devices which are superior to nowadays charge-based microelectronic elements. Utilizing spin properties of electrons opens great opportunities to reduce device power consumption in future electronic circuits. Silicon, the main element of microelectronics, is promising for spin-driven applications. U...

Variation of Spin Lifetime with Spin Injection Orientation in Strained Thin Silicon Films

Spintronics attracts at present much interest because of the potential to build novel spin-based devices which are superior to charge-based microelectronic elements. Silicon, the main element of microelectronics, is promising for spin-driven applications. Understanding the peculiarities of the subband structure and details of spin propagation in thin silicon films in the presence of the spinorb...

Spin-helical Dirac states in graphene induced by polar-substrate surfaces with giant spin-orbit interaction: a new platform for spintronics

Spintronics, or spin electronics, is aimed at efficient control and manipulation of spin degrees of freedom in electron systems. To comply with demands of nowaday spintronics, the studies of electron systems hosting giant spin-orbit-split electron states have become one of the most important problems providing us with a basis for desirable spintronics devices. In construction of such devices, i...