Spin-Filter Device Based on the Rashba Effect Using a Nonmagnetic Resonant Tunneling Diode

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 4-

  Koga, Takaaki ^a   Nitta, Junsaku ^a   Takayanagi, Hideaki ^a   Datta, Supriyo ^b  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 26144474736     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.126601     Document Type: Article

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