Experimental spin ratchet

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6011, 2010, Pages 1645-1648

  Costache, Marius V ^a   Valenzuela, Sergio O ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; ION;

CURRENT; ELECTRON; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ISLAND; MAGNETIC FABRIC; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLARIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TUNNEL;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; ENERGY TRANSFER; MAGNETIC FIELD; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 78650332121     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1196228     Document Type: Article

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30. We gratefully acknowledge discussions with and support from M. Tinkham and thank I. Žutić and Y. Tserkovnyak for discussions and W. D. Oliver, P. Gambardella, and A. Bachtold for a critical reading of the manuscript. This research was supported in part by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MAT2010-18065, FIS2009-06671-E). Samples were made at the Center for Nanoscale Systems, Harvard University.