Bidirectional resonant tunneling spin pump

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1391-1393

  Ting, David Z Y ^a   Cartoixà, Xavier ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

SPIN PUMPS;

RESONANT TUNNELING;

EID: 0041416342     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1602158     Document Type: Article

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