Room-temperature electron spin generation by femtosecond laser pulses in colloidal CdS quantum dots

Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4523-4531

  Tong, Haifang ^a   Feng, Donghai ^a   Li, Xiao ^a   Deng, Li ^a   Leng, Yuxin ^b   Jia, Tianqing ^a   Sun, Zhenrong ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

Electron spin; Optical manipulation; Pump probe; Quantum dots

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SPIN DYNAMICS; ELECTRON SPINS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; OPTICAL MANIPULATION; OPTICAL SPIN ORIENTATION; PUMP-PROBE; SPIN-POLARIZED ELECTRONS; TIME-RESOLVED FARADAY ROTATION;

CADMIUM SULFIDE; ELECTRONS; ELECTROSPINNING; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 84888815270     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma6104523     Document Type: Article

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