Ballistic spin-polarized transport and Rashba spin precession in semiconductor nanowires

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Mireles, Francisco ^a   Kirczenow, George ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL BINDING; CONDUCTANCE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0034905944     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.64.024426     Document Type: Article

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