Spin injection into magnesium nanowire

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 6 PART 1, 2011, Pages 1545-1548

  Idzuchi, Hiroshi ^a   Fukuma, Yasuhiro ^b   Wang, Le ^b,c   Otani, Yoshichika ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

Lateral spin valve; spin hot spot; spin injection; spin relaxation

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; IRON ALLOYS; MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NANOWIRES; NICKEL ALLOYS; SPIN ORBIT COUPLING;

HOT SPOT; LATERAL SPIN VALVE; RELAXATION MECHANISM; SPIN DIFFUSIONS; SPIN INJECTION; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; SPIN RELAXATION; SPIN-DIFFUSION LENGTH;

MAGNESIUM;

EID: 79957789390     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2108272     Document Type: Article

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