The generation of excess electron spin in semiconductors can provide extra information for logic operations, and is essential to many spin-based technologies. But it’s difficult to inject spin from ...

1. What is a semiconductor? Generally speaking, the term semiconductor refers to a material – like silicon – that can conduct electricity much better than an insulator such as glass, but not as well ...

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