Room-temperature spin injection and optical polarization in nitride-based blue and ultra-violet spin light-emitting diodes.

RT spin injection and optical polarization in nitride-based spin-LEDs are investigated. By employing CoFeB/MgO as the spin injector, the spin relaxation time and diffusion length in n-type GaN film are revealed to be 54.9 ps and 214.4 nm, respectively, through the three-terminal Hanle measurement. As the spin injector structure is applied to blue spin-LED, a maximal circular polarization of 3.3% is detected in electroluminescence, with the surface-emitting geometry and under a vertical magnetic field. UV spin-LED with n-Al_0.05Ga_0.95N transport layer is also fabricated, whose optical polarization is relatively smaller due to the larger spin–orbit coupling in Al atoms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]