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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 89, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.166602
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We report the first experimental demonstration that interface microstructure limits diffusive electrical spin-injection efficiency across heteroepitaxial interfaces. An inverse correlation be-tween spin-polarized electron injection efficiency and interface defect density is demonstrated for ZnMnSe/AlGaAs-GaAs spin-polarized light-emitting diodes that exhibit quantum well spin polarizations up to 85%. A theoretical treatment shows that the suppression of spin injection due to interface defects results from the contribution of the defect potential to the spin-orbit interaction, which increases the spin-flip scattering.
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