Optical and electronic manipulation of spin coherence in semiconductors

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 752-760

  Sih, Vanessa A ^a   Johnston Halperin, Ezekiel ^a   Awschalom, David D ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b and Technology   (United States)

^c AAAS   (United States)

^d Materials Research Society   (United States)

^e AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical NMR; Dynamic nuclear polarization; Electron spin coherence; Ferromagnetic proximity polarization; Ferromagnetic semiconductor; Quantum computing; Spin polarization; Spintronics; Time resolved Faraday rotation (TRFR)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROMAGNETISM; HETEROJUNCTIONS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

DYNAMIC NUCLEAR POLARIZATION; ELECTRON SPIN COHERENCE; FERROMAGNETIC PROXIMITY POLARIZATION; FERROMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR; QUANTUM COMPUTING; SPIN POLARIZATION; SPINTRONICS; TIME RESOLVED FARADAY ROTATION (TRFR);

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

EID: 20744457870     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2003.811800     Document Type: Article

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