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American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 8(86), p. 082502

DOI: 10.1063/1.1864243

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Ballistic hole magnetic microscopy

Journal article published in 2005 by E. Haq, T. Banerjee ORCID, M. H. Siekman, J. C. Lodder, R. Jansen
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Abstract

A technique to study nanoscale spin transport of holes is presented: ballistic hole magnetic microscopy. The tip of a scanning tunneling microscope is used to inject hot electrons into a ferromagnetic heterostructure, where inelastic decay creates a distribution of electron-hole pairs. Spin-dependent transmission of the excited hot holes into an underlying p-type semiconductor collector induces a hole current in the valence band of the semiconductor, with magnetocurrent values up to 180%. The spin-filtering of holes is used to obtain local hysteresis loops and magnetic imaging with spatial resolution better than 30 nm.