Importance of spin-orbit interaction for the electron spin relaxation in organic semiconductors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 21, 2013, Pages

  Nuccio, L ^a,b   Willis, M ^a   Schulz, L ^b   Fratini, S ^c   Messina, F ^d   D'Amico, M ^d,e   Pratt, F L ^f   Lord, J S ^f   McKenzie, I ^f   Loth, M ^g   Purushothaman, B ^g   Anthony, J ^g   Heeney, M ^h   Wilson, R M ^a   Hernandez I ^a,i   Cannas, M ^d,e   Sedlak, K ^j   Kreouzis, T ^a   Gillin, W P ^a   Bernhard, C ^b   Drew, A J ^a,f   more..

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^e Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia MeSIAM ^*  (Italy)

^f RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^h IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^j PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SUBSTITUTION; ELECTRON-SPIN RELAXATION; HYPERFINE INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEMICONDUCTORS; MUON SPIN SPECTROSCOPY; SOURCE OF ELECTRONS; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 84878396158     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.216602     Document Type: Article

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