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Nature Physics 4, 836 - 837 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphys1121
Subject Categories: Condensed-matter physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics
Semiconductor spintronics: Snapshots of spins separating
Mathias Duckheim1 & Daniel Loss1
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Mathias Duckheim and Daniel Loss are in the Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
e-mail: mathias.duckheim@unibas.ch; e-mail: daniel.loss@unibas.ch
Abstract
Theories of the spin Hall effect suggest that spin currents generated by electric fields accumulate spin polarization at the sample edges. Now an experiment has observed this conversion in real time.
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