Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Giant g-factors and fully spin-polarized states in metamorphic short-period InAsSb/InSb superlattices

  • Yuxuan Jiang,
  • Maksim Ermolaev,
  • Gela Kipshidze,
  • Seongphill Moon,
  • Mykhaylo Ozerov,
  • Dmitry Smirnov,
  • Zhigang Jiang,
  • Sergey Suchalkin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33560-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

Read online

Semiconductors with large Landé g-factors allow for both highly spin-polarized states, and precise control of the spin dynamics. Here, the authors make superlattices of two semiconductors, InSb, and InAsSb, and by tuning the conduction and valence band overlap, achieve a Landé g-factor of 104.