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Spin gapless semiconductor

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Prediction and discovery
Properties and applications
References

{{notability|date=February 2017}}{{onesource|date=February 2017}}{{Condensed matter physics}}Spin gapless semiconductors are a novel class of materials with unique electrical band structure for different spin channels in such a way that there is no band gap (i.e., 'gapless') for one spin channel while there is a finite gap in another spin channel.

In a spin-gapless semiconductor, conduction and valence band edges touch, so that no threshold energy is required to move electrons from occupied (valence) states to empty (conduction) states. This gives spin-gapless semiconductors unique properties: namely that their band structures are extremely sensitive to external influences (e.g., pressure or magnetic field). ^[1]

Because very little energy is needed to excite electrons in an SGS, charge concentrations are very easily ‘tuneable’. For example, this can be done by introducing a new element (doping) or by application of a magnetic or electric field (gating).

A new type of spin gapless semiconductor identified in 2017, known as Dirac-type spin-gapless semiconductors, has linear dispersion and is considered an ideal platform for massless and dissipationless spintronics because spin-orbital coupling opens a gap for the spin fully polarized conduction and valence band, and as a result, the interior of the sample becomes an insulator, however, an electrical current can flow without resistance at the sample edge. This effect, the quantum anomalous Hall effect has only previously been realised in magnetically doped topological insulators.^[2]

Electron mobility in such materials is two to four orders of magnitude higher than in classical semiconductors^[3].

Prediction and discovery

The spin gapless semiconductor was first proposed as a new spintronics concept and a new class of candidate spintronic materials in 2008 in a paper by Xiaolin Wang of the University of Wollongong in Australia.^[4] ^[5]

Properties and applications

The spin gapless semiconductor is a promising candidate material for spintronics because its charged particles can be fully spin-polarised, so that spin can be controlled via only a small applied external energy^[6].

References

1. ^https://www.fleet.org.au/blog/dirac-spin-gapless-semiconductors/
2. ^https://www.fleet.org.au/blog/dirac-spin-gapless-semiconductors/
3. ^https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/4/2/252/2615248?guestAccessKey=dc5322b1-f2f3-4172-9282-d698648f94bf
4. ^{{Cite journal|last = Wang| first = Xiaolin | date = 18 April 2008 | title = Proposal for a New Class of Materials: Spin Gapless Semiconductors | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume = 100 | issue = 15 | pages = 156404 | doi=10.1103/physrevlett.100.156404| pmid = 18518135 | url = http://ro.uow.edu.au/aiimpapers/14 }}
5. ^https://media.uow.edu.au/releases/UOW043551
6. ^https://www.fleet.org.au/blog/dirac-spin-gapless-semiconductors/

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