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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 86, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.235408
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- Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials
- Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM)
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In the field of spintronics the conductivity mismatch problem remains an important issue. Here the difference between the resistance of ferromagnetic electrodes and a (high resistive) transport channel causes injected spins to be backscattered into the leads and to lose their spin information. We study the effect of the resulting contact-induced spin relaxation on spin transport, in particular on nonlocal Hanle precession measurements. As the Hanle line shape is modified by the contact-induced effects, the fits to Hanle curves can result in incorrectly determined spin transport properties of the transport channel. We quantify this effect that mimics a decrease of the spin relaxation time of the channel reaching more than four orders of magnitude and a minor increase of the diffusion coefficient by less than a factor of two. Then we compare the results to spin transport measurements on graphene from the literature. We further point out guidelines for a Hanle precession fitting procedure that allows the reliable extraction of spin transport properties from measurements.
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