TY - JOUR
T1 - Long spin diffusion lengths in doped conjugated polymers due to enhanced exchange coupling
AU - Wang, Shu Jen
AU - Venkateshvaran, Deepak
AU - Mahani, M. R.
AU - Chopra, Uday
AU - McNellis, Erik R.
AU - Di Pietro, Riccardo
AU - Schott, Sam
AU - Wittmann, Angela
AU - Schweicher, Guillaume
AU - Cubukcu, Murat
AU - Kang, Keehoon
AU - Carey, Remington
AU - Wagner, Thomas J.
AU - Siebrecht, Janis N. M.
AU - Wong, Daniel P. G. H.
AU - Jacobs, Ian E.
AU - Aboljadayel, Razan O.
AU - Ionescu, Adrian
AU - Egorov, Sergei A.
AU - Mueller, Sebastian
AU - Zadvorna, Olga
AU - Skalski, Piotr
AU - Jellett, Cameron
AU - Little, Mark
AU - Marks, Adam
AU - McCulloch, Iain
AU - Wunderlich, Joerg
AU - Sinova, Jairo
AU - Sirringhaus, Henning
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank L. Vila and S. Auffret from SPINTEC in France for support with the fabrication of Co/Al2O3 films used in the organic nonlocal spin valves. We also thank C. H. W. Barnes and S. J. Brennan from the Thin Film Magnetism group of the Cavendish Laboratory for support with metal deposition, and J. A. Haigh of Hitachi Cambridge Laboratories for discussions on the measurements. K. Müllen of MPI Mainz supplied the polymer CDT-BTZ, for which the authors are grateful. The inputs of C. Chen and J. Armitage on the doping of organic semiconductors is also gratefully acknowledged. D.V. is grateful to X.-J. She for discussions on orthogonal resists. G.S. acknowledges postdoctoral fellowship support from the Wiener-Anspach Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust (Early Career Fellowship supported by the Isaac Newton Trust). I.E.J. acknowledges funding from the Royal Society through a Newton International Fellowship. Finally, the authors are very grateful for the excellent technical support offered by R. Chakalov and R. Beadle during the course of the ERC Synergy grant. Funding from the ERC Synergy Grant SC2 (grant no. 610115) is gratefully acknowledged.
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PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - 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 μm and fast spin transit times of around 10 ns are possible in conjugated polymer systems when they have a sufficiently high spin density (around 1020 cm−3). We explain these results in terms of an exchange-based spin diffusion regime in which the exchange interactions decouple spin and charge transport.
AB - 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 μm and fast spin transit times of around 10 ns are possible in conjugated polymer systems when they have a sufficiently high spin density (around 1020 cm−3). We explain these results in terms of an exchange-based spin diffusion regime in which the exchange interactions decouple spin and charge transport.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41928-019-0222-5
DO - 10.1038/s41928-019-0222-5
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2520-1131
VL - 2
SP - 98
EP - 107
JO - Nature Electronics
JF - Nature Electronics
IS - 3
ER -