Valley spin polarization by using the extraordinary Rashba effect on silicon

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sakamoto, Kazuyuki ^a   Kim, Tae Hwan ^b   Kuzumaki, Takuya ^a   Müller, Beate ^a   Yamamoto, Yuta ^a   Ohtaka, Minoru ^a   Osiecki, Jacek R ^c   Miyamoto, Koji ^d   Takeichi, Yasuo ^e   Harasawa, Ayumi ^e   Stolwijk, Sebastian D ^f   Schmidt, Anke B ^f   Fujii, Jun ^g   Uhrberg, R I G ^c   Donath, Markus ^f   Yeom, Han Woong ^b   Oda, Tatsuki ^h  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^g LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^h KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

BACKSCATTER; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MOMENTUM; POLARIZATION; SILICON; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ELECTRICITY; FILTER; POLARIZATION; RASHBA EFFECT; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84886777182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3073     Document Type: Article

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