Achieving highly localized effective magnetic fields with non-uniform rashba spin-orbit coupling for tunable spin current in metal/semiconductor/metal structures

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1323-1326

  Fujita, Takashi ^a,b   Jalil, Mansoor B A ^a   Tan, Seng Ghee ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Semiconductor spintronics; Spin injection; Spin orbit coupling

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; SPIN POLARIZATION; SPINTRONICS;

CONDUCTION ELECTRONS; DEVICE INTERFACES; RASHBA SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING; SEMICONDUCTOR SPINTRONICS; SPIN DEPENDENT TRANSPORT; SPIN INJECTION; SPIN POLARIZED CURRENTS; SPINTRONIC APPLICATIONS;

SPIN ORBIT COUPLING;

EID: 77952820390     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2045478     Document Type: Article

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