Detection of Spin-Polarized Conduction Electrons in Si by MuSR

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One of the challenges of developing Silicon-based spintronics technology is developing non-destructive methods for characterizing spin-polarized conduction electrons. Si is indirect bandgap and optical magneto-optical methods don't work. We have demonstrated that laser-injected spin-polarized electrons enhance the spin-relaxation of bound Mu- in GaAs. The goal of the proposed experiment is to demonstrate the ability of MuSR to detect spin-polarized electrons in Si and an indirect bandgap semiconductor for the first time, thus opening the possibility for MuSR to contribute uniquely to semiconductor spintronics research. A 10 ns duration UV pump pulse tuned to the spin-polarization resonance will inject spin-polarized electrons in bulk Si and the HI Field muon spectrometer field-tuned to the avoided level crossing resonance of various Mu species in Si will probe laser-induced changes.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.61780367
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/61780367
Provenance
Creator Mr Prashantha Murahari; Miss Jingliang Miao; Professor Alan Drew; Dr Harry Tom; Mr John Muse; Dr Koji Yokoyama; Professor Kanetada Nagamine; Professor Eiko Torikai; Dr James Lord
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-07-14T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-07-20T09:05:48Z