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Volume 124, Number 2, October 2018
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| Article Number | 27006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/124/27006 | |
| Published online | 23 November 2018 | |
Large spin-orbit splitting in inversion layers on HgCdTe with an inverted band structure
1 State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Shanghai 200083, China
2 Tianjin Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Materials Physics and Preparing Technology, Department of Physics, Tianjin University - Tianjin 300072, China
Received: 12 August 2018
Accepted: 23 October 2018
This paper reports the study of the magneto-transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas confined in inversion layers on HgCdTe with an inverted band structure. The magnetoresistance exhibits Shubnikov-de Hass oscillations, where beating patterns are observed at low magnetic field. This can be attributed to the zero-field spin splitting. By using the fast Fourier transformation of the observed beating patterns, the zero-field spin splitting energy is extracted. The extracted energy up to 
is obtained, which is far larger than that in inversion layers on HgCdTe with a normal band structure. This offers a route to realize a HgTe-based spintronic device that works at room temperature.
PACS: 71.70.Ej – Spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman and Stark splitting, Jahn-Teller effect / 85.75.-d – Magnetoelectronics; spintronics: devices exploiting spin polarized transport or integrated magnetic fields
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