Spin relaxation in n-doped GaAs due to impurity and electron-electron Elliot-Yafet scattering

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 24, 2003, Pages

  Tamborenea, P I ^a,b   Kuroda, M A ^a   Bottesi, F L ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CRYSTAL; DENSITY; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 1042265122     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.245205     Document Type: Article

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