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Electrically generated spin accumulation due to the spin Hall effect of Pt/GaAs is detected by circular polarized photoconductivity (CPPC), which shows electron spins with different polarizations accumulated around opposite sample boundaries. An optical absorption model incorporating spin is used to explain these features. The detailed analysis of the observed degree of circular polarization of the photocurrent strongly suggests that Pt and GaAs have the same spin accumulation length in the Pt/GaAs heterostructure.
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Phys Rev Lett
August 2025
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Physics, Wuhan 430074, China.
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State Key Laboratory of Chemical Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, People's Republic of China.
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September 2025
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University of Toronto, Department of Medical Biophysics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Significance: Tumor tissues exhibit contrast with healthy tissue in circular degree of polarization (DOP) images via higher magnitude circular DOP values and increased helicity-flipping. This phenomenon may enable polarimetric tumor detection and surgical/procedural guidance applications.
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