Generation of spin currents and spin densities in systems with reduced symmetry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Culcer, Dimitrie ^a   Winkler, R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; HALL EFFECT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

SPIN CURRENTS; SPIN-HALL COMPONENTS; SPIN-ORBIT INTERACTIONS;

SPIN DENSITY WAVES;

EID: 36448981803     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.226601     Document Type: Article

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