Electrical control of the direction of spin accumulation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Kimura, Takashi ^a,b   Otani, Yoshichika ^a,b   Levy, Peter M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIZATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTICLE BEAM INJECTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ELECTRICAL CONTROL; FERROMAGNETIC SPIN INJECTORS; NONMAGNETIC METALS; SPIN SIGNALS;

SPIN POLARIZATION;

EID: 35348966810     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.166601     Document Type: Article

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