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Spintronics, which aims at exploiting the spin degree of freedom of carriers inside electronic devices, has a huge potential for quantum computation and dissipationless interconnects. Ideally, spin currents in spintronic devices should be powered by a spin voltage generator able to drive spins out of equilibrium and produce two spatially well-separated populations with opposite spin orientation. Such a generator should work at room temperature, be highly integrable with existing semiconductor technology, and work with neither ferromagnetic materials nor externally applied magnetic fields. We have matched these requirements by realizing the spintronic equivalent of a photovoltaic cell. While the latter spatially separates photoexcited electron and hole charges, our device exploits circularly polarized light to produce two spatially well-defined electron populations with opposite spin. This is achieved by modulating the phase and amplitude of the light wavefronts entering a semiconductor (germanium) with a patterned metal overlayer (platinum). This allows creating a light diffraction pattern with spatially-modulated chirality inside the semiconductor, which locally excites spin-polarized electrons thanks to electric dipole selection rules.
Spin current generators are critical components for spintronics-based information processing. In this work, we theoretically and computationally investigate the bulk spin photovoltaic (BSPV) effect for creating DC spin current under light illuminatio
Van der Waals junctions of two-dimensional materials with an atomically sharp interface open up unprecedented opportunities to design and study functional heterostructures. Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides have shown tremendous potenti
Successful incorporation of the spin degree of freedom in semiconductor technology requires the development of a new paradigm allowing for a scalable, non-destructive electrical detection of the spin-polarization of injected charge carriers as they p
We report on very high enhancement of thin layers absorption through band-engineering of a photonic crystal structure. We realized amorphous silicon (aSi) photonic crystals, where slow light modes improve absorption efficiency. We show through simula
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