Strongly spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional electron gas emerging near the surface of polar semiconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Sakano, M ^a   Bahramy, M S ^b   Katayama, A ^a   Shimojima, T ^a   Murakawa, H ^b   Kaneko, Y ^b   Malaeb, W ^a,c   Shin, S ^a,c   Ono, K ^d   Kumigashira, H ^d   Arita, R ^a,b,c   Nagaosa, N ^a,b   Hwang, H Y ^b,e   Tokura, Y ^a,b   Ishizaka, K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS STRUCTURE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D CONFINEMENT; ATOMIC CONFIGURATION; POLAR SEMICONDUCTORS; RASHBA SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; SPIN ORBITS; SPIN SPLITTINGS; SPIN-POLARIZED ELECTRONS;

BINDING ENERGY; ELECTRON GAS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84874869320     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.107204     Document Type: Article

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