Local Control of Carrier Spin States in a Semiconductor by Microscale Ferromagnetic Wires

Autor: Joachim Puls, S. Halm, E. Neshataeva, Werner Keune, Fritz Henneberger, Tilmar Kümmell, Gerd Bacher, E. Schuster, F. Seifert
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: AIP Conference Proceedings.
ISSN: 0094-243X
DOI: 10.1063/1.2730406
Popis: Employing fringe fields from microscale Fe/Tb multilayer ferromagnets (FMs) with remanent out‐of‐plane magnetization, we are able to define a local, remanent carrier spin polarization in an underlying ZnCdMnSe dilute magnetic semiconductor quantum well (DMS QW). The fringe fields of the FMs “imprint” a locally varying magnetization into the DMS QW by orienting the magnetic moment of the incorporated Mn2+ ions. Optically excited charge carriers align their spin along the local DMS magnetization due to the s‐pd exchange interaction. Using polarization resolved, magnetic field dependent photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy we demonstrate a remanent DMS carrier spin polarization of 5 % in the vicinity of ferromagnetic Fe/Tb wire structures.
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