Spin Transport in the heterogeneous structure containing Topological Insulator and Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor

TL;DR

This paper investigates spin transport in heterostructures combining topological insulators and diluted magnetic semiconductors, revealing how electric and magnetic fields influence spin injection efficiency and spin current behavior, with implications for sensitive spintronic devices.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of spin transport mechanisms in TI/DMS heterostructures, highlighting the effects of electric and magnetic fields on spin injection and current oscillations, which is novel.

Findings

Higher electric fields increase spin injection efficiency but with diminishing returns.

Spin current oscillates at low magnetic fields and attenuates as the field increases.

Temperature rise weakens spin current vibrations and reduces oscillation amplitude.

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss spin transport in topological insulator (TI) and diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) heterogeneous structures. In DMS / FM (Ferromagnetic Metal) heterogeneous structure, the spin injection efficiency changes according to the electric field and Fermi energy were investigated. The higher electric field, the stronger spin injection efficiency, and its velocity of increase gets lower and approaches to the equilibrium state. Additionally, the higher interface conductivity, the weaker spin injection efficiency, and the transmission due to Fermi energy of spin up and spin down is different from each other. In the same structure, the spin injection efficiency changes depending on the magnetic field, and the spin injection efficiency vibrates sensitively according to the magnetic field. In TI / DMS heterogeneous structure, the spin current changes according to magnetic field were investigated. Here, when the magnetic field is low, the spin current oscillates, and as the magnetic field increases, the vibration is attenuated. It also decreases with increasing temperature and weakens vibrations. This is due to the competitive effect of the chiral properties of Dirac type quasiparticles in the topological insulator and the unique properties of exchange interaction between electrons and ions in DMS. This result allows us to expect the possibility of spintronic devices with high sensitivity to magnetic field.