Beating of the oscillations in the magnetocapacitance of a MODFET with Rasba spin-orbit interaction

Microelectronics Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1161-1168

  Kliros, G S ^a   Divari, P C ^b  

^a HELLENIC AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Lateral surface superlattices; Magnetocapacitance; Mesoscopic devices; MODFETs; Spin orbit interaction

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; SPIN DYNAMICS;

LATERAL SURFACE SUPERLATTICES; MAGNETOCAPACITANCE; MESOSCOPIC DEVICES; SPIN-ORBIT INTERACTION;

MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS;

EID: 36349017776     PISSN: 00262692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mejo.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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