Photo-spintronics of spin-orbit active electric weak links

Robert I. Shekhter; Ora Entin-Wohlman; M. Jonson; A. Aharony

Photo-spintronics of spin-orbit active electric weak links

Robert I. Shekhter, Ora Entin-Wohlman, M. Jonson, A. Aharony

School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

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Abstract

We show that a carbon nanotube can serve as a functional electric weak link performing photo-spintronic transduction. A spin current, facilitated by strong spin-orbit interactions in the nanotube and not accompanied by a charge current, is induced in a device containing the nanotube weak link by circularly polarized microwaves. Nanomechanical tuning of the photo-spintronic transduction can be achieved due to the sensitivity of the spin-orbit interaction to geometrical deformations of the weak link.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1137-1140
Number of pages	4
Journal	Fizika Nizkikh Temperatur
Volume	43
Issue number	8
Publication status	Published - Aug 2017

Keywords

Spin-orbit interactions
Spintronics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
General Physics and Astronomy

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