Anomalous spin dephasing in (110) GaAs quantum wells: Anisotropy and intersubband effects

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Dohrmann S ^a   Hagele D ^a   Rudolph, J ^a   Bichler, M ^b   Schuh, D ^b   Oestreich, M ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ELECTRON SPIN DECOHERENCE; INTERSUBBAND EFFECTS; MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELL (MQW); SPIN RELAXATION MECHANISM;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 19644400946     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.147405     Document Type: Article

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