Impact of electron-impurity scattering on the spin relaxation time in graphene: A first-principles study

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2013, Pages

  Fedorov, Dmitry V ^a,b   Gradhand, Martin ^a,c   Ostanin, Sergey ^a   Maznichenko, Igor V ^b   Ernst, Arthur ^a,b   Fabian, Jaroslav ^d   Mertig, Ingrid ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON-IMPURITY; FIRST-PRINCIPLES STUDY; IMPURITY POSITIONS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SPIN RELAXATION; SPIN RELAXATION TIME; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS;

ADATOMS; CALCULATIONS; IMPURITIES; RELAXATION TIME;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84876279546     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.156602     Document Type: Article

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