Anisotropy-driven spin relaxation in germanium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 25, 2013, Pages

  Li, Pengke ^a,b   Li, Jing ^a   Qing, Lan ^c   Dery, Hanan ^b,c   Appelbaum, Ian ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER HEATING; ELECTRON PHONON SCATTERING; GERMANIUM DEVICES; INTERVALLEY SCATTERING; LOW TEMPERATURES; SPIN ORIENTATIONS; SPIN RELAXATION; SPIN-VALVE MEASUREMENT;

ANISOTROPY;

GERMANIUM;

EID: 84890781442     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.257204     Document Type: Article

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