Spin relaxation mechanism in silver nanowires covered with MgO protection layer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Idzuchi, H ^a,b   Fukuma, Y ^b,c   Wang, L ^b,d   Otani, Y ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AG NANOWIRES; CAPPING LAYER; ELLIOTT-YAFET MECHANISM; LATERAL SPIN VALVE; MGO; MGO SURFACES; MOMENTUM SCATTERING; NEW YORK; NONLOCAL SPIN INJECTION; PROTECTION LAYERS; SILVER NANOWIRES; SPIN RELAXATION; SPIN RELAXATION PROCESS; SPIN-FLIP; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; UNIVERSAL CURVE;

NANOWIRES;

SURFACE SCATTERING;

EID: 84863966976     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4737001     Document Type: Article

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