Oscillatory spin-polarized tunnelling from silicon quantum wells controlled by electric field

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-138

  Jansen, Ron ^a   Min, Byoung Chul ^a,b   Dash, Saroj P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC CARBON; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SILICON; SPIN POLARIZATION; TUNNELLING MAGNETORESISTANCE;

ELECTRIC-FIELD CONTROL; ELECTROSTATIC MODIFICATION; SILICON QUANTUM WELLS; SPIN DEPENDENT ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; SPIN-POLARIZED TUNNELLING; TUNNEL MAGNETORESISTANCE; ZEEMAN SPIN SPLITTING;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 75749099612     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2605     Document Type: Article

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