Spin-Photonic Devices and Its Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E:Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 June 2021) | Viewed by 13080
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Spin-photonics, or spin-optoelectronics, is an emerging sub-field of spintronics that aims at adding spin-based functionality to the conventional optoelectronic devices exploiting the conservation of spin angular momentum between carriers and photons. For the first decade since the first reports on spin-polarized light emitting diodes (spin-LEDs) in 1999, spin-photonic devices had been mostly studied as a tool for investigating the spin-state of carriers in semiconductors or metals. In the next decade up to now, most efforts have been focused at the development of spin-photonics devices for practical use on the basis of the knowledge obtained by research in the previous decades. Recently, several demonstrations and significant progressions of devices that can endure practical use have been reported. Several potential applications in particular have been reported: optical secure communications, light source for storage devices, chiral molecule resolutions, three-dimensional display, biomedical imaging, optically enhanced nuclei imaging. This Special Issue of Micromachines aims to provide the comprehensive view of this field, understandings of device operations, recent progressions of the device development, demonstrations of practical use, and novel application proposals, with novel physical insights and open discussions.
We are looking forward to your submissions.
Dr. Nozomi Nishizawa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Devices based on semiconductor spintronics:
- Spin-polarized light emitting diodes
- Spin lasers
- Spin photodiodes
- Devices based on spin-orbit photonics
- Other devices using carrier spins
- Applications:
- Optical communications
- Light sources for storage devices
- Imaging and display
- Biological applications
- Novel applications using spin-photonic devices
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