Spin–orbit interactions in high In-content InGaAs/InAlAs inverted heterojunctions for Rashba spintronic devices
✍ Scribed by Hyonkwan Choi; Tomoyasu Kakegawa; Masashi Akabori; Toshi-kazu Suzuki; Syoji Yamada
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 453 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1386-9477
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✦ Synopsis
We have studied molecular beam epitaxy growth and magneto-transport of novel In x Ga 1Àx As/In x Al 1Àx As (x ¼ 0.5 and 0.75) inverted modulation-doped heterojunctions. Large Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling constants, a$20 Â 10 À12 eV m, as well as high twodimensional electron mobilities, m e $2 Â 10 5 cm 2 /V s, have been confirmed at $1.5 K. It was also found that larger a's were confirmed in the higher In-content heterojunctions with thinner InGaAs surface channel. These results are qualitatively explained by the differences in the energy bandgap, the electron effective mass, and the mean electric field strength at the heterojunction interface. The above features of a and m e , seem to be promising in the applications in the spintronic devices as well as in the mesoscopic structures for novel spin physics based on the Rashba spin-orbit interaction.