D. V. Yurasov | Searcharxiv

arXiv2020

Study of the spin-pump-induced inverse spin-Hall effect in Bi doped n-type Si

An inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) in n-type silicon was observed experimentally when conduction electrons were scattered on the spin-orbit potential of bismuth. The spin current in the silicon layer was generated by excitation of the magnetization precession during ferromagnetic resonance in a thin permalloy (Py) layer deposited on a Si layer doped by phosphor and bismuth. From the angular dependences of the dc voltage for different Py/n-Si:Bi structures aligned along the [011] or [100] crystal axes, we were able to distinguish the planar Hall effect (PHE) and ISHE contributions. The ISHE dc voltage signal was proportional to sinθ*sin2θ product for the structure aligned to the [011] crystal axis and to sinθ*cos2θ for the [100] direction. In addition, the PHE dc voltage was observed for the angles corresponded to the sin2θ dependence. It means that for silicon as a many-valley semiconductor, the scattering of spins due to the spin-orbit potential induced by shallow donor in n-type material is dependent on the orientation of the valley axes relative to the direction of the magnetic field.

cond-mat.mes-hall↗

arXiv2017

Quantitative depth profiling of Si1-xGex structures by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry and secondary neutral mass spectrometry

Quantification of Ge in Si1-xGex structures (0.092 0.9997) of intensity ratios of GeCs2+/SiCs2+ and 74Ge-/30Si- secondary ions and post-ionized 70Ge+/28Si+ sputtered neutrals with Ge concentration was obtained. The calibration data were used for quantitative depth profiling of [10x(12.3 nm Si0.63Ge0.37/34 nm Si)] structures on Si. Satisfactory compliance of the quantified Ge concentration in SiGe layers with the data measured by high-resolution X-ray diffraction was obtained for both techniques. Both SIMS and SNMS experimental profiles were fitted using the Hofmann mixing-roughness-information depth (MRI) model. In case of TOF-SIMS the quality of the reconstruction was higher than for SNMS since not only the progressing roughening, but also crater effect and other processes unaccounted in the MRI simulation could have significant impact on plasma sputter depth profiling.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗