Measurement of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit magnetic fields

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 650-654

  Meier, Lorenz ^a,b   Salis, Gian ^a   Shorubalko, Ivan ^b   Gini, Emilio ^b   Schön, Silke ^b   Ensslin, Klaus ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; RELATIVITY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; DIRECTION OF MOTION; INVERSION ASYMMETRY; SOLID-STATE SYSTEM; SPECIAL RELATIVITY; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; SPINTRONIC DEVICE;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 34548460686     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys675     Document Type: Article

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