Strong evidence for d-electron spin transport at room temperature at a LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface

Nature Materials

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 609-614

  Ohshima, Ryo ^a,b   Ando, Yuichiro ^a   Matsuzaki, Kosuke ^c   Susaki, Tomofumi ^c   Weiler, Mathias ^d,e   Klingler, Stefan ^d,e   Huebl, Hans ^d,e,f   Shikoh, Eiji ^g   Shinjo, Teruya ^a   Goennenwein, Sebastian T B ^d,e,f   Shiraishi, Masashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d WALTHER MEISSNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f NANOSYSTEMS INITIATIVE MUNICH NIM   (Germany)

^g Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON GAS; ELECTRONS; ELECTROSPINNING; FERROMAGNETISM; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LANTHANUM ALLOYS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; MAGNETOELECTRONICS; PHASE INTERFACES; QUANTUM HALL EFFECT; TITANIUM OXIDES;

CONDUCTIVE OXIDES; ELECTRON ORBITAL; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSICAL SCIENCE; SPIN RELAXATION; SPIN TRANSPORT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS (2DEG);

TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON GAS;

EID: 85012288982     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4857     Document Type: Article

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