Associate Chair, Department of Physics and Associate Professor of Physics
About
Professor Sih is investigating electron and nuclear spin polarization in semiconductors using optical techniques. Ultrafast, spatially-resolved magneto-optical spectroscopy is used to monitor electron spin dynamics and the electrical generation of spin polarization in non-magnetic materials through spin-orbit coupling and the spin Hall effect. This research is relevant to the development of spin-based information processing devices.
Selected Publications
Current-Induced Spin Polarization in InGaAs and GaAs Epilayers with Varying Doping Densities, (M. Luengo-Kovac, S. Huang, D. Del Gaudio, J. Occena, R. S. Goldman, R. Raimondi, and V. Sih), Physical Review B 96, 195206 (2017).
Long-Lived Hole Spin/Valley Polarization Probed by Kerr Rotation in Monolayer WSe2, (X. Song, S. Xie, K. Kang, J. Park, and V. Sih), Nano Letters 16, 5010-5014 (2016).
Resonant and Time-Resolved Spin Noise Spectroscopy, (B. C. Pursley, X. Song, and V. Sih), Applied Physics Letters 107, 182102 (2015).
Current-Induced Spin Polarization in Anisotropic Spin-Orbit Fields, (B. M. Norman, C. J. Trowbridge, D. D. Awschalom, and V. Sih), Physical Review Letters 112, 056601 (2014).
Time-Resolved Two-Pulse Excitation of Quantum Dots Coupled to a Photonic Crystal Cavity in the Purcell Regime, (J. Lee, T. W. Saucer, A. J. Martin, J. M. Millunchick, and V. Sih), Physical Review Letters 110, 013602 (2013).
Field(s) of Study
- Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
