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Long spin diffusion lengths in doped conjugated polymers due to enhanced exchange coupling
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- Issue Date
- 2019-03
- Publisher
- NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
- Citation
- Nature Electronics, Vol.2 No.3, pp.98-107
- Abstract
- Carbon-based semiconductors such as conjugated organic polymers are of potential use in the development of spintronic devices and spin-based information processing. In particular, these materials offer a low spin-orbit coupling strength due to their relatively light constituent chemical elements, which should, in principle, favour long spin diffusion lengths. However, organic polymers are relatively disordered materials and typically have a carrier mobility that is orders of magnitude lower than crystalline inorganic materials. As a result, small spin diffusion lengths of around 50 nm have typically been measured using vertical organic spin valves. Here, we report measuring spin diffusion lengths in doped conjugated polymers using a lateral spin transport device architecture, which is based on spin pumping injection and inverse spin Hall detection. The approach suggests that long spin diffusion lengths of more than 1 mu m and fast spin transit times of around 10 ns are possible in conjugated polymer systems when they have a sufficiently high spin density (around 10(20)cm(-3)). We explain these results in terms of an exchangebased spin diffusion regime in which the exchange interactions decouple spin and charge transport.
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- 2520-1131
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