Electrical creation of spin polarization in silicon at room temperature

Nature

Volumn 462, Issue 7272, 2009, Pages 491-494

  Dash, Saroj P ^a   Sharma, Sandeep ^a   Patel, Ram S ^a   De Jong, Michel P ^a   Jansen, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; SILICON;

ELECTRICAL METHOD; ELECTRON; POLARIZATION; SILICON; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 70849105299     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08570     Document Type: Article

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