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Semiconductor Spintronics.

Semiconductor Spintronics, as an emerging research discipline and an important advanced field in physics, has developed quickly and obtained fruitful results in recent decades. This volume is the first monograph summarizing the physical foundation and the experimental results obtained in this field....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Xia, Jianbai, 1939-
Otros Autores: Ge, Weikun, Chang, Kai
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : World Scientific, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; CONTENTS; List of Acronyms; Introduction; 0.1 Origin of Spintronics
  • GMR Effect Device; 0.2 New Materials for Spintronics Applications; 0.3 Spin Injection and Spin Transport of Electrons; 0.4 Optical Modulation of Spin Coherence in Semiconductors and Nanostructures; 0.5 Spin Electronic Devices; References; 1. Properties of Magnetic Ions in Semiconductors; 1.1 Electron Configuration of Magnetic Ions; 1.2 Splitting of the Basis State of Free Ions in the Crystal Field; 1.3 Crystal Field Theory; 1.4 Wave Functions of Many-electron States; 1.5 Equivalent Operator Method.
  • 1.6 Magnetic Ion Energy Levels in Semiconductors1.7 Experimental Study of the Properties of Magnetic Ions in Semiconductors; References; 2. Properties of DMSs; 2.1 Effective-mass Theory of Semiconductors in the Magnetic Field; 2.2 DMSs of a Wide Band Gap; 2.2.1 Magnetic energy levels of wide bandgap semiconductors; 2.2.2 Magnetic interaction in DMSs; 2.2.3 DMSs of the wurtzite structure; 2.2.4 Experimental observations; 2.3 Narrow Bandgap DMSs; 2.3.1 Magnetic energy levels of narrow bandgap semiconductors; 2.3.2 Magnetic optical spectra of Hg1-xMnxTe; 2.4 Microstructures of DMSs.
  • 2.4.1 DMS superlattices (Faraday configuration)2.4.2 DMS superlattice (Voigt configuration); 2.4.3 DMS quantum dots; 2.4.4 MP effect; 2.4.5 DMS quantum wires; 2.5 Transport Properties of DMSs; 2.6 Fe2+ Ion-doped DMSs
  • Van Vleck Paramagnetism; 2.7 Giant Faraday Rotation and KR; 2.7.1 Magneto-optical property of magnetic semiconductors; 2.7.2 TRFR and TRKR in magnetic semiconductors; 2.8 Light-Induced Magnetization; References; 3. Ferromagnetic Semiconductors; 3.1 FMS Ga1-xMnxAs; 3.2 Other FMSs; 3.3 Fermi-level Engineering; 3.4 Influence of Clusters on Ferromagnetism; 3.5 QDs of FMSs.
  • 3.6 Mean-field Theory of FMSs3.6.1 Microscopic theory of ferromagnetism; 3.6.2 Magnetic interaction in DMSs; 3.6.3 FMS quantum wires and quantum slabs; 3.6.4 Ferromagnetic semiconductor QDs; 3.7 First-principle Calculation of FMSs; 3.7.1 Simple model of the electronic structure of 3d impurities in GaAs; 3.7.2 Practical rules for ferromagnetism of 3d impurities in semiconductors; 3.8 Magnetic Polaron (MP)
  • A New Mechanism of Ferromagnetism; References; 4. Injection of Spin-polarized Electrons; 4.1 Spin Lifetime and Drift of Electrons in Semiconductors; 4.2 Rashba Effect.
  • 4.2.1 Origin of the Rashba effect4.2.2 Experimental measurement of the Rashba coefficient; 4.2.3 Theoretical calculation of the Rashba coefficient; 4.3 Semiconductor Spin Transistor and Quantum Waveguide Theory; 4.3.1 Spin-polarized tunneling transistor; 4.3.2 Semiconductor spin transistor; 4.4 Quantum Waveguide Theory of Rashba Electrons; 4.4.1 1D quantum waveguide theory of Rashba electrons; Wave function; Boundary conditions at the intersection; Transport in open circuits; 4.4.2 Transport in closed 1D loops; AB ring: closed circular ring; 4.4.3 Eigenstates in closed loops.