Optically rewritable patterns of nuclear magnetization in gallium arsenide

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  King, Jonathan P ^a   Li, Yunpu ^b   Meriles, Carlos A ^b   Reimer, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; ISOTOPE; GALLIUM; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; ILLUMINATION; IRRADIATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNETISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLARIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIMULATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; CHEMISTRY; OPTICS;

ARSENICALS; ELECTRONS; GALLIUM; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84863319694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1918     Document Type: Article

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