Anisotropic electron spin relaxation in bulk GaN

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Bu, J H ^a   Rudolph, J ^a   Natali, F ^b,c   Semond, F ^b   Hagele D ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MACDIARMID INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SPIN DYNAMICS; ELECTRON SPINS; ELECTRON-SPIN RELAXATION; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; ROTATION MEASUREMENT; SPIN RELAXATION; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; TIME-RESOLVED; WURTZITE GAN; WURTZITE STRUCTURE;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRONS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; ZINC SULFIDE;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 70449732578     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3261755     Document Type: Article

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