Gate Controlled Spin Precession Effect

A two-dimensional (2D) non-local lateral spin-transport model is developed based on the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism for ballistic carriers in mode space approach. The effect of gate controlled Rashba spin-orbit (RSO) interaction in modulating the non-local spin voltage has been explicitly taken into account. We found a quantitative agreement with the recent observation on non-local controlled spin-precession by Koo \textit{et. al }[1]. The phase shift observed in the voltage according to the analytical equation used in [1] is found to be the consequence of both multichannel effect and the effect of injecting and detecting ferromagnetic contact length. In such structures we predict that a short length contact as well as an etched out channel can improve the non-local voltage significantly. \textbf{[1] }H. C. Koo \textit{et. al.} Science, 325, 1515 (2009).