Electric field tunability of nuclear and electronic spin dynamics due to the hyperfine interaction in semiconductor nanostructures

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 23, 2003, Pages

  Ţifrea, Ionel ^a   Flatté, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; NUCLEAR PROPERTIES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ELECTRIC FIELD TUNABILITY; ELECTRONIC SPIN DYNAMICS; HYPERFINE INTERACTION; NUCLEAR SPIN DIFFUSION; NUCLEAR SPIN DYNAMICS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0041810495     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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