Room temperature spin diffusion in (110) GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells

Nanoscale Res Lett. 2011 Feb 16;6(1):149. doi: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-149.

Abstract

Transient spin grating experiments are used to investigate the electron spin diffusion in intrinsic (110) GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum well at room temperature. The measured spin diffusion length of optically excited electrons is about 4 μm at low spin density. Increasing the carrier density yields both a decrease of the spin relaxation time and the spin diffusion coefficient Ds.