- Electronic Spin Filter via Spin Superlattice
- Electronic Spin Filter via Spin Superlattice
- ㆍ 저자명
- Han. Jae-Ho,Lee. H.W.,You. Chun-Yeol
- ㆍ 간행물명
- Journal of magnetics
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2007년|12권 2호|pp.77-80 (4 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국자기학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물|ENG| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
Recently there was a proposal for a spin filter by using the spin superlattice structure. In a certain energy range, the proposed structure exhibits a high spin filtering efficiency close to 100%. Unfortunately such energy range turns out to be narrow. In this paper, we report a method to widen the energy range by using an analogy to optical anti-reflection coating. In optics, it is well known that a stack of alternating layers of two dielectric materials can function as a highly transmissive or reflective filter for wide range of wavelength. Since electrons also have wave character as light, it would be possible to make an electronic analog of an optical filter. We demonstrate that alternating layers of two materials with different g-factors can function as a spin filter that allows electrons to be transmitted only when their spins point towards a certain particular direction. This spin-superlattice-based spin filter operates in wide energy ranges, curing the problem in the previous proposal.