Electric control of the spin Hall effect by intervalley transitions

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 932-937

  Okamoto, N ^a   Kurebayashi, H ^a,b,c   Trypiniotis, T ^a,d   Farrer, I ^a   Ritchie, D A ^a   Saitoh, E ^c,e,f   Sinova, J ^g,h   Masek J ^h   Jungwirth, T ^h,i   Barnes, C H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON CENTRE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^g JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; HEAVY METALS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

ELECTRIC CONTROL; ELECTRON POPULATION; INTERVALLEY TRANSITION; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPIN CURRENTS; SPIN-ORBIT COUPLINGS; SPIN-POLARIZED ELECTRONS;

SPIN HALL EFFECT;

EID: 84907991678     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4059     Document Type: Article

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