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Getting current pulses under control

Nature Nanotechnology volume 8, pages 232–233 (2013)Cite this article

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Ultrafast spin currents in iron-based heterostructures generate terahertz radiation bursts whose frequency can be tailored through structural engineering.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the approach used by Kampfrath and colleagues3 to generate and detect ultrashort spin-current bursts.

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  1. Richard Averitt is at the Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA,

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