Observation of the nonlocal spin-orbital effective field

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Fan, Xin ^a   Wu, Jun ^a   Chen, Yunpeng ^a   Jerry, Matthew J ^a   Zhang, Huaiwu ^b   Xiao, John Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER;

ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; MAGNETIZATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METAL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

ACCELERATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; MAGNETIC FIELD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; TORQUE;

EID: 84877775793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2709     Document Type: Article

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