We report a study in which Andreev reflection using a Nb point contact is used to measure the transport spin polarisation of the 4d itinerant ferromagnet SrRuO3. By performing the study in high quality thin films with residual resistivities less than 7μΩ-cm, we ensure that the study is done in the ballistic limit, a regime which is difficult to reach in oxide ferromagnets. The degree of transpo...

We report on observation of the spin transport of spatially indirect excitons in GaAs/AlGaAs coupled quantum wells (CQW). Exciton spin transport over substantial distances, up to several micrometers in the present work, is achieved due to orders of magnitude enhancement of the exciton spin relaxation time in CQW with respect to conventional quantum wells.

The circuits in today’s computers, cell-phone cameras, and many other electronic devices rely on the manipulation of electronic charges via CMOS technology—transistors built from a combination of “complementary” metal, oxide, and semiconductor materials. A promising “beyond-CMOS” technology [1] is spintronics, in which information is carried by spin instead of charge. Spintronics devices could ...

A theory of spin-transport in hybrid normal metal ferromagnetic electronic circuits is developed, taking into account non-collinear spin-accumulation. Spin-transport through resistive elements is described by 4 conductance parameters. Microscopic expression for these conductances are derived in terms of scattering matrices and explicitly calculated for simple models. The circuit theory is appli...

We study high-field spin transport of electrons in a quasi one-dimensional channel of a GaAs gate controlled spin interferometer (SPINFET) using a semiclassical formalism (spin density matrix evolution coupled with Boltzmann transport equation). Spin dephasing (or depolarization) is predominantly caused by D’yakonov-Perel’ relaxation associated with momentum dependent spin orbit coupling effect...

We demonstrate that in an inversion-asymmetric two-dimensional electron system (2DES) with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings taken into account, certain transport directions on which no spin precession occurs can be found when the injected spin is properly polarized. By analyzing the expectation value of spin with respect to the injected electron state on each space point in the ...

We demonstrate that in an inversion-asymmetric quasi-two-dimensional electron system (quasi2DES) with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings at present, certain transport directions on which no spin precession occurs can be found when the injected spin is properly polarized. By analyzing the expectation value of spin with respect the injected electron state on each space point in the ...