Room-temperature defect-engineered spin filter based on a non-magnetic semiconductor

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 198-202

  Wang, X J ^a   Buyanova, I A ^a   Zhao, F ^b   Lagarde, D ^b   Balocchi, A ^b   Marie, X ^b   Tu, C W ^c   Harmand, J C ^d   Chen, W M ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LPN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CARBON; DEFECTS; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; POINT CONTACTS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPIN DYNAMICS; SPIN POLARIZATION; YARN;

CONDUCTION ELECTRONS; ELECTRON SPIN POLARIZATION; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; NON-MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; QUANTUM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; QUANTUM POINT CONTACT; SPINTRONIC APPLICATIONS; ZERO MAGNETIC FIELDS;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 60749135971     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2385     Document Type: Article

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