Full electrical control of the electron spin relaxation in GaAs quantum wells

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Balocchi, A ^a   Duong, Q H ^a   Renucci, P ^a   Liu, B L ^b   Fontaine, C ^c   Amand, T ^a   Lagarde, D ^a   Marie, X ^a  

^a INSA   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL CONTROL; ELECTRON SPIN DYNAMICS; ELECTRON-SPIN RELAXATION; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; GAAS QUANTUM WELLS; GAAS/ALGAAS QUANTUM WELL; SPACE DIRECTIONS; SPIN ORBITS; SPIN RELAXATION TIME; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC FIELD;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 80053113419     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.136604     Document Type: Article

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