Spin Hall effect devices

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 382-390

  Jungwirth, Tomas ^a,b   Wunderlich, Jörg ^a,c   Olejník, Kamil ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c HITACHI CAMBRIDGE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; HALL EFFECT DEVICES; RELATIVITY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER; HALL DEVICES; NON-MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS; NON-MAGNETIC SYSTEM; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; SPIN CURRENTS; SPIN INJECTION; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS;

SPIN HALL EFFECT;

EID: 84860188679     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3279     Document Type: Review

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