Spin transport in germanium at room temperature

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Shen, C ^a   Trypiniotis, T ^a   Lee, K Y ^a   Holmes, S N ^b   Mansell, R ^a   Husain, M ^c   Shah, V ^d   Li, X V ^c   Kurebayashi, H ^a   Farrer, I ^a   De Groot, C H ^c   Leadley, D R ^d   Bell, G ^d   Parker, E H C ^d   Whall, T ^d   Ritchie, D A ^a   Barnes, C H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SPINS; NI CONTACTS; OPTICAL SPIN ORIENTATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCHOTTKY; SPIN DEPENDENT TRANSPORT; SPIN TRANSPORT; SPIN-DEPENDENT CONDUCTANCE; SPIN-POLARIZED ELECTRONS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

GERMANIUM;

EID: 77958499612     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3505337     Document Type: Article

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