Spin-Based Mach-Zehnder Interferometry in Topological Insulator p-n Junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Ilan, Roni ^a   De Juan, Fernando ^a,b   Moore, Joel E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); SPIN POLARIZATION; SURFACE STATES;

ELECTRONIC MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; MACH ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETRY; SPIN FILTERS; SPIN MOMENTUM; SPINTRONIC DEVICE; TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS; TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

EID: 84940704268     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.096802     Document Type: Article

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