Electric Field Control of Spin Lifetimes in Nb-SrTiO3 by Spin-Orbit Fields

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Kamerbeek, A M ^a   Hogl P ^b   Fabian, J ^b   Banerjee, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; STRONTIUM TITANATES;

BUILT-IN ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC-FIELD CONTROL; LOW-RESISTANCE STATE; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR; SEMI-CONDUCTOR SURFACES; SPIN-ACCUMULATIONS; SPIN-FLIP SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODELING;

NIOBIUM OXIDE;

EID: 84943248410     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.136601     Document Type: Article

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