Long room-temperature electron spin lifetimes in bulk cubic GaN

J. H. Buß; J. Rudolph; T. Schupp; D. J. As; K. Lischka; D. Hägele

doi:10.1117/12.873395

21 February 2011 Long room-temperature electron spin lifetimes in bulk cubic GaN

J. H. Buß, J. Rudolph, T. Schupp, D. J. As, K. Lischka, D. Hägele

Proceedings Volume 7937, Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials XV; 793711 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873395
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report on very long electron spin lifetimes in cubic GaN measured by time-resolved Kerr-rotation-spectroscopy. The spin coherence times with and without external magnetic field exceed 500 ps at room temperature, despite a high n-type doping level of more than 10¹⁹ cm^-3 in the bulk sample under investigation. Our findings are therefore highly relevant for spin optoelectronics in the blue wavelength regime. The spin lifetimes are found to be almost temperature independent in accord with a prediction for degenerate electron gases of Dyakonov and Perel from 1972. These results are discussed also in comparison to wurtzite GaN, which shows much shorter spin lifetimes and a dependence of spin lifetimes on the spin orientation.

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J. H. Buß, J. Rudolph, T. Schupp, D. J. As, K. Lischka, and D. Hägele "Long room-temperature electron spin lifetimes in bulk cubic GaN", Proc. SPIE 7937, Ultrafast Phenomena in Semiconductors and Nanostructure Materials XV, 793711 (21 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873395

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