Time-Resolved Faraday Rotation Spectroscopy of Spin Dynamics in Digital Magnetic Heterostructures

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 1082-1092

  Crooker, Scott A ^a   Awschalom, David D ^a   Samarth, Nitin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITONS; IONS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; MANGANESE; MONOLAYERS; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPECTROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIGITAL MAGNETIC HETEROSTRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC SPIN DYNAMICS; LOW DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC IONS; MAGNETIC SPIN DYNAMICS; OPTICAL PROBE; TIME RESOLVED FARADAY ROTATION MEASUREMENTS; TIME RESOLVED FARADAY ROTATION SPECTROSCOPY;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 0029533439     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: 15584542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.488685     Document Type: Article

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