Towards coherent spin precession in pure-spin current

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Idzuchi, Hiroshi ^a,b   Fukuma, Yasuhiro ^b,c   Otani, Yoshichika ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 84866138651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00628     Document Type: Article

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