Generation, transport and detection of valley-polarized electrons in diamond

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 760-764

  Isberg, Jan ^a   Gabrysch, Markus ^a,b   Hammersberg, Johan ^a   Majdi, Saman ^a   Kovi, Kiran Kumar ^a   Twitchen, Daniel J ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c ELEMENT SIX LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ELECTRON SPINS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; OTHER PROPERTIES; QUANTUM COMPUTING; QUANTUM NUMBERS; SPIN DEGREES OF FREEDOM; SPINTRONIC DEVICE;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84880798259     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3694     Document Type: Article

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