Room-temperature spin coherence in ZnO
Author(s) -
Sayantani Ghosh,
Vanessa Sih,
Wayne H. Lau,
D. D. Awschalom,
Seung Yong Bae,
Sihong Wang,
Shefali Vaidya,
George Chapline
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.1946204
Subject(s) - condensed matter physics , pulsed laser deposition , materials science , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , spin (aerodynamics) , coherence time , spin polarization , magnetic field , electron , thin film , laser , physics , nanotechnology , optics , thermodynamics , quantum mechanics
Time-resolved optical techniques are used to explore electron spin dynamicsin bulk and epilayer samples of n-type ZnO as a function of temperature andmagnetic field. The bulk sample yields a spin coherence time T2* of 20 ns at T= 30 K. Epilayer samples, grown by pulsed laser deposition, show a maximum T2*of 2 ns at T = 10 K, with spin precession persisting up to T = 280 K.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figure
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