A solid state paramagnetic maser device driven by electron spin injection

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Watts, S M ^a   Van Wees, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MICROWAVES; PARAMAGNETISM; STIMULATED EMISSION;

ELECTRON SPIN INJECTION; INJECTION SOURCE; SPIN PUMPING;

MASERS;

EID: 33748678930     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.116601     Document Type: Article

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