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- Title
Thermal orientation of electron spins.
- Authors
Tarasenko, S. A.
- Abstract
It is shown that the spin orientation of free electrons occurs in low-symmetry semiconductor structures if the electron gas is driven out of thermal equilibrium with the crystal lattice. The proposed mechanism of such a thermal orientation of electron spins is based on spin dependence of the electron-phonon interaction, which tends to restore equilibrium. The microscopic theory of the effect is developed here for asymmetric (110)-grown quantum wells where the electron gas heating leads to the spin orientation along the [ $$ 1\bar 10 $$ ] axis in the quantum well plane.
- Subjects
SEMICONDUCTOR industry; SEMICONDUCTORS; FREE electron lasers; ELECTRON gas; PHONONS; QUANTUM wells; ENERGY-band theory of solids
- Publication
Semiconductors, 2008, Vol 42, Issue 8, p967
- ISSN
1063-7826
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S1063782608080150