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Volume 101, Number 4, February 2013
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Article Number | 47001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/101/47001 | |
Published online | 01 March 2013 |
Controllable electron-spin polarization by δ-doping in a hybrid ferromagnet and semiconductor nanostructure
College of Science, Guilin University of Technology - Guilin 541004, PRC
(a) maowanglu@126.com (corresponding author)
Received: 19 August 2012
Accepted: 29 January 2013
By using modern materials growth techniques such as molecular beam epitaxy, a tunable δ-potential can be intentionally doped into semiconductor nanostructures. In this work, we theoretically investigate modulation of electron-spin polarization by such a δ-doping in a hybrid ferromagnet and semiconductor nanostructure, where a nanosized ferromagnetic stripe with horizontal magnetization is deposited on top of a semiconductor heterostructure. It is shown that this nanosystem possesses a considerable spin polarization effect due to breaking the intrinsic symmetry by the δ-doping. It is also shown that both magnitude and sign of spin polarization vary dramatically with the height and/or position of the δ-doping. These interesting properties may provide an alternative scheme to achieve a controllable spin-polarized source, and this nanostructure may serve as a structurally tunable spin filter.
PACS: 73.23.-b – Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems
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