Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Jong Hwa Eom

Hyun Woo Koo

Suk Hee Han

Joon Yeon Chang

Hyung Jun Kim

Hyun Jung Yi

Disclosed herein is a spin transistor including: a semiconductor substrate having a channel layer formed therein; first and second electrodes which are formed to be spaced apart from each other on the substrate at a predetermined distance along a longitudinal direction of the channel layer; a source and drain which include magnetized ferromagnetic materials and are formed to be spaced apart form each other between the first electrode and the second electrode at a predetermined distance along the longitudinal direction of the channel layer; and a gate which is formed on the substrate between the source and the drain, and adjusts spin orientations of electrons passing through the channel layer, wherein the electrons passing through the channel layer are spin-aligned at a lower side of the source by a stray magnetic field of the source and spin-filtered at a lower side of the drain by a stray field of the drain.

Spin transistor using stray magnetic field

A spin transistor having wide ON/OFF operation margin and producing less noise is provided. The spin transistor includes a substrate having a channel, a source, a drain and a gate formed on the substrate. The source and the drain are formed to have magnetization directions perpendicular to the length direction of the channel. The ON/OFF operations of the spin transistor can be controlled by generating a spin-orbit coupling induced magnetic field to have a direction parallel or anti-parallel to the magnetization directions of the source and the drain.

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