Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity Enables a Room-Temperature Spin Light-Emitting Diode

Young-Hoon Kim, Yaxin Zhai, Haipeng Lu, Xin Pan, Chuanxiao Xiao, E. Gaulding, Steven Harvey, Joseph Berry, Zeev Vardeny, Joseph Luther, Matthew Beard

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Abstract

In traditional optoelectronic approaches, control over spin, charge, and light requires the use of both electrical and magnetic fields. In a spin-polarized light-emitting diode (spin-LED), charges are injected, and circularly polarized light is emitted from spin-polarized carrier pairs. Typically, the injection of carriers occurs with the application of an electric field, whereas spin polarization can be achieved using an applied magnetic field or polarized ferromagnetic contacts. We used chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) to produce spin-polarized carriers and demonstrate a spin-LED that operates at room temperature without magnetic fields or ferromagnetic contacts. The CISS layer consists of oriented, self-assembled small chiral molecules within a layered organic-inorganic metal-halide hybrid semiconductor framework. The spin-LED achieves ±2.6% circularly polarized electroluminescence at room temperature.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)1129-1133
Number of pages5
JournalScience
Volume371
Issue number6534
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Mar 2021

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NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/JA-5900-78453

Keywords

  • perovskite
  • quantum dots
  • spin LED

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