Proposal for a spin-polarized solar battery

Igor Žutić; Jaroslav Fabian; S. Das Sarma

doi:10.1063/1.1399002

Proposal for a spin-polarized solar battery

Igor Žutić
, Jaroslav Fabian
, S. Das Sarma

Physics

Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
University of Maryland, College Park

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Abstract

A solar cell illuminated by circularly polarized light generates charge and spin currents. We show that the spin polarization of the current significantly exceeds the spin polarization of the carrier density for the majority carriers. Based on this principle, we propose a semiconductor spin-polarized solar battery and substantiate our proposal using analytical arguments and numerical modeling.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1558-1560
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	79
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1399002
State	Published - Sep 3 2001

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