Experimental demonstration of room-temperature spin transport in n -type germanium epilayers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 19, 2015, Pages

  Dushenko, S ^a   Koike, M ^a   Ando, Y ^a,b   Shinjo, T ^b   Myronov, M ^c   Shiraishi, M ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPILAYERS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; GERMANIUM; SPIN WAVES;

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; INCREASING TEMPERATURES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SI (001) SUBSTRATE; SPIN RELAXATION; SPIN RELAXATION TIME; SPIN-DIFFUSION LENGTH; THEORETICAL MODELING;

SPIN HALL EFFECT;

EID: 84930225688     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.196602     Document Type: Article

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