Long room-temperature electron spin lifetimes in highly doped cubic GaN

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Buss J H ^a   Rudolph, J ^a   Schupp, T ^b   As, D J ^b   Lischka, K ^b   Hagele D ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGENERATE ELECTRON GAS; EARLY PREDICTION; ELECTRON SPINS; ELECTRON-SPIN RELAXATION; N-DOPED; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROTATION MEASUREMENT; SPIN RELAXATION TIME; TEMPERATURE INDEPENDENTS; TIME-RESOLVED; ZINC-BLENDE;

ELECTRON GAS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 77955738010     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3478838     Document Type: Article

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