Electric- and exchange-field controlled transport through silicene barriers: Conductance gap and near-perfect spin polarization

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 22, 2014, Pages

  Vargiamidis, V ^a   Vasilopoulos, P ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION; SPIN POLARIZATION;

BALLISTIC ELECTRON TRANSPORT; CONDUCTANCE GAP; CONTROLLED SWITCHING; CONTROLLED TRANSPORT; DECREASING FUNCTIONS; DIRAC POINT; DOUBLE BARRIERS; EXCHANGE FIELDS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84915747822     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4903248     Document Type: Article

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