Title:	Study of spin-polarization and electronic lenses in semiconductor nanodevices
DNr:	NAISS 2025/22-806
Project Type:	NAISS Small Compute
Principal Investigator:	Iryna Yakymenko <iryna.yakymenko@liu.se>
Affiliation:	Linköpings universitet
Duration:	2025-06-02 – 2026-07-01
Classification:	10304
Homepage:	https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/ifm/teofy
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Abstract

This project is within the field of semiconductor spintronics that promises realization of spin-based active components for electronic circuits. The objective of the present project, supported by the Carl Trygger Foundation: CTS 21:1583: "Study of electronic focusing lens embedded in semiconductor nanodevices", is to investigate theoretically spin polarization and spin-dependent electron transport through electronic lens embedded in a wide quantum wire (QW) fabricated in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. The experimental setup consists of three quantum point contacts (QPCs), with two of them functioning as spin injectors and the third acting as a spin detector. The main aim of this research is to study the possibility of implementing an electronic lens within a QW with shallow confinement, using an experimentally proposed electron focusing device that incorporates an asymmetrically loaded QPC. Spin-dependent transport through this asymmetrically loaded QPC is tested by the electronic lens and the spin detector QPC. . Theoretical study of electron transport through a lens area is based on density functional theory (DFT). For this purpose, we have implemented an algorithm based on the Kohn-Sham local spin density approximation (LSDA) model and adapted it for a parallel high-performance cluster with distributed memory at the National Supercomputer Center in Linköping.