Theory of Spin-dependent phonon-assisted optical transitions in silicon

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Li, Pengke ^a   Dery, Hanan ^a,b  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATERIAL CHOICE; PARAMETER-FREE METHODS; SPIN INJECTION; SPIN RELAXATION TIME; SPINTRONICS DEVICE;

OPTICAL TRANSITIONS; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SPIN POLARIZATION;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 77954773374     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.037204     Document Type: Article

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