Electrical manipulation of spins in the Rashba two dimensional electron gas systems

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Nitta, Junsaku ^a,b,c   Bergsten, Tobias ^b,c,d   Kunihashi, Yoji ^a   Kohda, Makoto ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL MANIPULATION; ELECTRON SPINS; ELECTROSTATIC GATES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HETEROSTRUCTURES; MESOSCOPIC; NARROW WIRES; PERTURBATION THEORY; QUANTUM WELL; RASHBA SPIN ORBIT INTERACTION; SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURES; SPIN INTERFERENCE; SPIN PRECESSION; SPIN RELAXATION; THICKNESS DEPENDENCE; TIME REVERSAL; WEAK ANTILOCALIZATION;

CRYSTALS; ELECTRON GAS; ELECTRONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS;

EID: 67650261029     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3117232     Document Type: Conference Paper

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