All-electric spin control in interference single electron transistors

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2897-2902

  Donarini, Andrea ^a   Begemann, Georg ^a   Grifoni, Milena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C60 MOLECULES; CURRENT BLOCKING; DEGENERATE ELECTRONIC STATE; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; EFFECTIVE ENERGY; FERROMAGNETIC LEADS; FULL CONTROL; IN-VACUUM; MESOSCOPIC RING; MOLECULAR JUNCTION; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RENORMALIZATION; SINGLE ELECTRON SPIN; SINGLE ELECTRON TRANSISTORS; SINGLE PARTICLE; SPIN CONTROL; SPINTRONICS; TRAPPED ELECTRONS;

BIAS VOLTAGE; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FLUX; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 68949135400     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl901199p     Document Type: Article

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