Published October 13, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Effect of electric-field on spin transport and spin current in an organic semiconductor system

  • 1. College of Science, North China University of Technology, 100041 Beijing (China)
  • 2. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, 100022 Beijing (China)

Description

We use the two-component drift-diffusion model to study the spin density polarization in an organic semiconductor system under an external electric-field. The spin-dependent electrical-conductivity, the drift spin current and the diffusion spin current in the organic semiconductor are self-consistently derived. It is found that the spin current could be strongly influenced by the spin-dependent electrical-conductivity. When the spin-dependent conductivity varies from 0 to 0.5%, the spin current presents a very pronounced change almost three orders in magnitude. The electric-field could effectively enhance the spin-dependent electrical-conductivity and the spin current. Furthermore, the spin-dependent electrical-conductivity is position sensitive, but its position sensitivity goes down while electric-field is larger than about 1 mV/μm

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2008.08.040

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physleta.2008.08.040;
PII
S0375-9601(08)01278-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. A
Journal Volume
372
Journal Issue
42
Journal Page Range
p. 6434-6437
ISSN
0375-9601
CODEN
PYLAAG

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