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SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 152, Issue 4, Pages 244-248Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2011.11.033
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Semiconductors; Magnetic films and multilayers; Spin accumulation
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We inject spin-polarized electrons from an Fe/MgO tunnel barrier contact into n-type Ge(001) substrates with electron densities 2 x 10(16) < n < 8 x 10(17) cm(-3), and electrically detect the resulting spin accumulation using three-terminal Hanle measurements. We observe significant spin accumulation in the Ge up to room temperature. We observe precessional dephasing of the spin accumulation (the Hanle effect) in an applied magnetic field for both forward and reverse bias (spin extraction and injection), and determine spin lifetimes and corresponding diffusion lengths for temperatures of 225-300 K. The room temperature spin lifetime increases from tau(s) = 50 ps to 123 ps with decreasing electron concentration, as expected from electron spin resonance work on bulk Ge. The measured spin resistance-area product is in good agreement with values predicted by theory for samples with carrier densities below the metal-insulator transition (MIT), but 10(2) larger for samples above the MIT. These data demonstrate that the spin accumulation measured occurs in the Ge, although dopant-derived interface or band states may enhance the measured spin voltage above the MIT. We estimate the polarization in the Ge to be on the order of 1%. Published by Elsevier Ltd
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