Transit-time spin field-effect transistor

The authors propose and analyze a four-terminal metal-semiconductor device that uses hot-electron transport through thin ferromagnetic films to inject and detect a charge-coupled spin current transported through the conduction band of an arbitrary semiconductor. This provides the possibility of realizing a spin field-effect transistor in Si using electrostatic transit-time control of coherent spin precession in a perpendicular magnetic field. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.