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Spatial Imaging and Mechanical Control of Spin Coherence in Strained GaAs Epilayers

H. Knotz, A. W. Holleitner, J. Stephens, R. C. Myers, D. D. Awschalom

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0511562

Abstract

The effect of uniaxial tensile strain on spin coherence in n-type GaAs epilayers is probed using time-resolved Kerr rotation, photoluminescence, and optically-detected nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies. The bandgap, electron spin lifetime, electron g-factor, and nuclear quadrupole splitting are simultaneously imaged over millimeter scale areas of the epilayers for continuously varying values of strain. All-optical nuclear magnetic resonance techniques allow access to the strain induced nuclear quadrupolar resonance splitting in field regimes not easily addressable using conventional optically-detected nuclear magnetic resonance.

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