Pure spin photocurrents

Semiconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Ivchenko, E L ^a   Tarasenko, S A ^a  

^a IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK SEMICONDUCTORS; COUNTERFLOW; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; INTER-SUBBAND; INTERBAND; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION; N-DOPED; PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE; QUANTUM WELL; QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES; SPIN CURRENTS; SPIN ORIENTATIONS; SPIN PHOTOCURRENTS; THEORETICAL RESULT;

ELECTRON GAS; PHOTOCURRENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SPIN DYNAMICS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 67649498370     PISSN: 02681242     EISSN: 13616641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0268-1242/23/11/114007     Document Type: Article

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