Spin-Voltaic Effect and its Implications

Materials Transactions

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2062-2065

  Žutić, Igor ^a   Fabian, Jaroslav ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Magnetic bipolar transistors; Magnetic semiconductors; Magnetoresistance; Optical orientation; p n junctions; Photo voltaic effect; Spin injection; Spin polarized transport; Spin voltaic effect; Spintronics

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; CHARGE CARRIERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

OPTICAL ORIENTATION; SPIN INJECTION; SPIN POLARIZATION; SPIN-VOLTAIC EFFECT;

MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 0345547697     PISSN: 13459678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2320/matertrans.44.2062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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