Spintronics

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 907-920

  Flatté, Michael E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetoelectronics; Rashba fields; Spin coherence; Spin electronics; Spin Hall effect; Spin relaxation times; Spin transistor; Spin transport; Spin valve; Spintronics

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONS; HALL EFFECT; LOGIC DEVICES; NONVOLATILE STORAGE; RELAXATION TIME; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SPIN DYNAMICS; SPIN POLARIZATION;

SPIN COHERENCE; SPIN ELECTRONICS; SPIN TRANSISTOR; SPIN VALVE;

MAGNETOELECTRONICS;

EID: 34247895691     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2007.894376     Document Type: Article

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