Temperature dependent electric field control of the electron spin relaxation in (111)A GaAs quantum wells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 24, 2013, Pages

  Wang, G ^a   Balocchi, A ^b   Lagarde, D ^b   Zhu, C R ^a   Amand, T ^b   Renucci, P ^b   Shi, Z W ^a   Wang, W X ^a   Liu, B L ^a   Marie, X ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC-FIELD CONTROL; ELECTRICAL CONTROL; ELECTRON-SPIN RELAXATION; GAAS QUANTUM WELLS; GAAS/ALGAAS; SPIN SPLITTINGS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT;

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 84879821676     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4811555     Document Type: Article

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