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Phys. Rev. B 73, 161307(R) (2006) [4 pages]

Spin transference and magnetoresistance amplification in a transistor

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H. Dery*, Ł. Cywiński, and L. J. Sham
Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0319, USA

Received 29 March 2006; published 25 April 2006

A current problem in semiconductor spin-based electronics is the difficulty of experimentally expressing the effect of spin-polarized current in electrical circuit measurements. We present a theoretical solution with the principle of transference of the spin-diffusion effects in the semiconductor channel of a system with three magnetic terminals. A notable result of technological consequences is the room-temperature amplification of the magnetoresistive effect, integrable with electronics circuits, demonstrated by computation of current dependence on magnetization configuration in such a system with currently achievable parameters.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.161307
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevB.73.161307
PACS:
85.75.Hh, 72.25.Dc

*Electronic address: hdery@ucsd.edu