Overview

The manipulation of electric charge in bulk semiconductors and their heterostructures is the basis of nearly all modern electronic and opto-electronic devices. Recent studies of spin-dependent phenomena in semiconductors open the door to technologies that harness the spin of the electron in semiconductor devices. In addition to providing spin-dependent analogies that extend existing electronic devices into the realm of semiconductor ""spintronics,"" the spin degree of freedom also offers prospects for fundamentally new functionality in the quantum domain, ranging from storage to computation. This is likely to play a crucial role in the information technologies in the 21st century. This book, written by a team of experts, provides an overview of emerging concepts in this rapidly developing field. The topics range from spin transport and injection in semiconductors and their heterostructures to coherent processes and computation in semiconductor quantum structures and microcavities.

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Author:   D.D. Awschalom ,  D. Loss ,  N. Samarth
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2002 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.777kg
ISBN:  

9783540421764

ISBN 10:   3540421769
Pages:   311
Publication Date:   13 June 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Ferromagnetic III–V Semiconductors and Their Heterostructures.- 2 Spin Injection and Transport in Micro- and Nanoscale Devices.- 3 Electrical Spin Injection: Spin-Polarized Transport from Magnetic into Non-Magnetic Semiconductors.- 4 Spin Dynamics in Semiconductors.- 5 Optical Manipulation, Transport and Storage of Spin Coherence in Semiconductors.- 6 Spin Condensates in Semiconductor Microcavities.- 7 Spins for Quantum Information Processing.- 8 Electron Spins in Quantum Dots as Qubits for Quantum Information Processing.- 9 Regulated Single Photons and Entangled Photons From a Quantum Dot Microcavity.

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From the reviews: <p> This book is a collection of nine contemporary articles by leading experts covering a large range of areas of interest to practitioners in the field including; fabrication, spin dynamics and transport, spin readout, optical manipulation, and electron spins in quantum dots. ... Researchers and graduate students in this, or related areas, would find this collection a very useful and readable up-to-date reference. (Lloyd C L Hollenberg, The Physicist, Vol. 40 (3), 2003)

From the reviews: This book is a collection of nine contemporary articles by leading experts covering a large range of areas of interest to practitioners in the field including; fabrication, spin dynamics and transport, spin readout, optical manipulation, and electron spins in quantum dots. ... Researchers and graduate students in this, or related areas, would find this collection a very useful and readable up-to-date reference. (Lloyd C L Hollenberg, The Physicist, Vol. 40 (3), 2003)

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