Y-shape spin-separator for two-dimensional group-IV nanoribbons based on quantum spin hall effect

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Gupta, Gaurav ^a   Lin, Hsin ^b   Bansil, Arun ^c   Abdul Jalil, Mansoor Bin ^a   Huang, Cheng Yi ^d   Tsai, Wei Feng ^d   Liang, Gengchiau ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b National University of Singapore   (Singapore)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CURRENT; DEVICE CONTROL; DRAIN TERMINALS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN FUNCTIONS; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; QUANTUM SPIN HALL EFFECT; QUANTUM SPIN HALL PHASE; SPIN-POLARIZED CURRENTS;

GREEN'S FUNCTION; SEPARATORS; SOURCE SEPARATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DRAIN CURRENT;

EID: 84893422129     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4863088     Document Type: Article

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