Manipulation of spin currents in metallic systems

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1948, 2011, Pages 3136-3149

  Otani, Yoshichika ^a   Kimura, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Spin current; Spin Hall effect; Spin injection; Spin torque; Spin orbit interaction

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; HALL EFFECT; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

SPIN CURRENTS; SPIN HALL EFFECT; SPIN INJECTION; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; SPIN TORQUE;

GYRATORS;

EID: 80051754556     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0010     Document Type: Review

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