Universal intrinsic spin Hall effect

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Sinova, Jairo ^a,b   Culcer, Dimitrie ^b   Niu, Q ^b   Sinitsyn, N A ^a   Jungwirth, T ^b,c   MacDonald, A H ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; IMPURITIES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PARAMAGNETIC MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

INTRINSIC SPIN HALL EFFECT; PARAMAGENTIC SPIN-ORBIT COUPLED SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR SPINTRONICS;

HALL EFFECT;

EID: 2342575465     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.126603     Document Type: Article

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