Optical injection and detection of ballistic pure spin currents in Ge

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Loren, Eric J ^a   Ruzicka, Brian A ^b   Werake, Lalani K ^b   Zhao, Hui ^b   Van Driel, Henry M ^c   Smirl, Arthur L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

DIFFERENTIAL TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL INJECTION; PHASE DEPENDENT; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; SPIN CURRENTS; SPIN RELAXATION; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 69949138491     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3222869     Document Type: Article

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