Imaging mesoscopic spin Hall flow: Spatial distribution of local spin currents and spin densities in and out of multiterminal spin-orbit coupled semiconductor nanostructures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Nikolić, Branislav K ^a   Zĝrbo, Liviu P ^a   Souma, Satofumi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

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EID: 33244495064     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.075303     Document Type: Article

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