Towards electrical spin injection into LaAlO3-SrTiO3

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1977, 2012, Pages 4958-4971

  Bibes, M ^a,b   Reyren, N ^a,b   Lesne, E ^a,b   George, J M ^a,b   Deranlot, C ^a,b   Collin, S ^a,b   Barthelemy A ^a,b   Jaffres H ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Oxide interfaces; Spin injection; Spintronics

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STRONTIUM TITANATES;

BUILDING BLOCKES; CHANNEL MATERIALS; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRICAL INJECTION; ELECTRICAL SPIN INJECTION; FERROELECTRIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HANLE EFFECTS; INTERFACE SYSTEM; LOCALIZED STATE; LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTION; MAGNETOTRANSPORT DATA; MULTI-FUNCTIONAL; OXIDE INTERFACES; OXIDE MATERIALS; SPIN FET; SPIN INJECTION; SPIN MANIPULATION; SPIN TRANSPORT; SPIN-ACCUMULATIONS; SPINTRONICS DEVICE; SRTIO; TWO-TERMINAL DEVICES; VOLTAGE VARIATION;

LANTHANUM ALLOYS;

EID: 84866881742     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0201     Document Type: Article

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