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After more than 20 years of development, semiconductor spintronics has become an important and interdisciplinary research filed of spin-based physics, materials and phenomenon. Spin light emitting diode (spin LED) is one of the fascinating topics in semiconductor spintronic, and it is also one of devices in which the radiative recombination of spin-polarized carriers results in luminescence exhibiting a net circular polarization. The research of spin LED involves the studies of materials, structures, and spin based physics in spin injector and active region. The spin injection, spin transport, and spin detection are key factors for understanding the spin based physics in spin LED. Here in this paper, we comprehensively review the current research status and the latest results. Finally, we also discuss the future research trend.
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Keywords:
- semiconductor spintronics /
- spin LED /
- spin polarization /
- spin injection
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图 2 自旋发光二极管的电致发光中偏振光测量系统原理示意图
Fig. 2. Schematic diagram of electroluminescence measurement system for spin LED
图 3 Spin LED中时间分辨光致发光系统原理示意图
Fig. 3. Schematic diagram of time-resolved photoluminescence system
图 6 在闪锌矿GaAs直接带隙能带中的光选择定则 (a)体材料及(b)量子阱中的电子空穴复合选择定则. 上边蓝色球代表电子, 下边的红色球代表空穴, 箭头代表自旋方向. 其中CB代表导带, HH代表重空穴带, LH代表轻空穴带, HH是三重简并态, LH是单态.
$ {\mathrm{\sigma }}^{-} $ 和$ {\mathrm{\sigma }}^{+} $ 分别代表左旋光与右旋光. 在量子阱结构中由于晶格应变和结构限制, 电子与LH态空穴的复合几率被大大抑制[1]Fig. 6. Electric dipole allowed radiative inter-band transitions and corresponding optical polarization for the cases of (a) bulk material with degenerate heavy- and light-hole bands and (b) a quantum well in which epitaxial strain and quantum confinement have lifted the heavy- and light-hole band degeneracy[1].
图 9 Gerhardt等[24]利用具有垂直磁各向异性的FeTb作为自旋注入端的自旋发光二极管 (a)结构示意图; (b)电致发光与磁场的关系, 他们在未加磁场剩余磁态下, 在90 K下得到了0.7%的圆偏振光极化率
Fig. 9. Schematic Spin LED device structure of the LED with Tb/Fe multilayer (a) reported by Gerhardt et al.[24], Circular polarization as a function of the applied magnetic field at 90 K (b), they observed PC of 0.7%
图 10 (a) 基于垂直磁各向异性Ta/CoFeB/MgO为自旋注入端的自旋发光二极管结构示意图, 虚线选定区对应的TEM照片, 其中插图为缩小后的TEM照片; (b)温度依赖的圆偏振极化率及注入电子极化率; (c)温度依赖的F因子及载流子寿命
$ \tau $ 、电子自旋弛豫时间$ {\tau }_{\mathrm{s}} $ Fig. 10. (a) Schematic device structure of Spin LED and HR-TEM image of CoFeB/MgO PMA injector; (b) temperature dependence of PC without magnetic field and with 0.4 T field. Temperature dependence of PE is calculated by PE = PC/F from the data without field; (c) temperature dependence of τS, τ, and F factor deduced from the TRPL measurements
图 12 (a), (b)基于垂直各向异性的Ta/CoFeB/MgO作为自旋注入端InGaAs/GaAs量子点spin LED 的TEM及其结构示意图; (c) InGaAs/GaAs量子点AFM图; (d)零磁场下9 K观测到了约35%电致发光圆偏振光极化率[32]
Fig. 12. Spin LED device with p-doped InAs/GaAs quantum dots and polarization resolved electroluminescence of an ensemble of quantum dots: (a) High resolution-transmission electron microscope image of the injector Ta/CoFeB/MgO/GaAs; (b) schematic structure of the spin LED device. A single layer of InAs QDs is embedded in the intrinsic region of the p-i-n junction of the LED; (c) AFM image of InAs QDs; (d) strongly polarized single dot emission at zero applied field[32].
表 1 基于面内磁各向异性自旋注入端的自旋发光二极管
Table 1. Spin LED based on spin injector with in-plane magnetic anisotropic.
自旋注入端 LED结构 PC/T 文献 时间 Fe InGaAs QW 2%/300 K Zhu等[16] 2001 Fe/(Al)GaAs GaAs QW 32%/4.5 K Hanbicki等[19] 2002 CoFe/Al2O3 GaAs bulk 21%/80 K Motsnyi等.[20] 2002 CoFe/MgO GaAs QW 52%/100 K Jiang等[15] 2005 Co/Al2O3 InAs QD 15%/1.7 K Lombez等[21] 2007 CoFeB/MgO GaAs QW 32%/100 K Lu等[8] 2008 Fe/AlOx GaAs QW 18%/80 K Wu等[22] 2010 CoFeB/MgO GaAs QW 25%/25 K Barate等[18] 2014 CoFeB/MgO GaAs QW 23%(Sputtering), 18%(MBE)/25 K Barate等[23] 2017 
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表 2 基于垂直磁各向异性的自旋注入端的自旋发光二极管
Table 2. Spin LED based on spin injector with out-plane magnetic anisotropic.
自旋注入端 LED结构 Pc/T 文献 时间 FeTb InGaAs QW 0.75%/90 K Gerhardt等[24] 2005 MnGa AlGaAs QW ~3%/20 K Adelmann等[25] 2006 FeTb AlGaAs QW ~3%/300 K Hövel等[26] 2008 CoPt SiGe QW ~3%/5 K Grenet等[27] 2009 CoPt GaAs QW ~2.5%/20 K Zarpellon等[28] 2012 Ta/CoFeB/MgO GaAs QW ~20%/25 K, ~8%/RT Liang等[29] 2014 MgO/CoFeB/Ta/CoFeB/MgO GaAs QW ~10%/10 K Tao等[30] 2016 Mo/CoFeB/MgO GaAs QW ~9.5%/10 K Tao等[31] 2018 Ta/CoFeB/MgO GaAs QD 35%/9 K Cadiz等[32] 2018
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[1] Holub M, Bhattacharya P 2007 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 40 R179
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[2] Farshchi R, Ramsteiner M, Herfort J, Tahraoui A, Grahn H T 2011 Appl. Phys. Lett. 98 162508
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