Room-temperature high spin–orbit torque due to quantum confinement in sputtered BixSe(1–x) films
10.1038/s41563-018-0136-z
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DC, M., Grassi, R., Chen, J.-Y., Jamali, M., Reifsnyder Hickey, D., Zhang, D., Zhao, Z., Li, H., Quarterman, P., Lv, Y., Li, M., Manchon, A., Mkhoyan, K. A., Low, T., & Wang, J.-P. (2018). Room-temperature high spin–orbit torque due to quantum confinement in sputtered BixSe(1–x) films. Nature Materials, 17(9), 800–807.

Authors 15
  1. Mahendra DC (first)
  2. Roberto Grassi (additional)
  3. Jun-Yang Chen (additional)
  4. Mahdi Jamali (additional)
  5. Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey (additional)
  6. Delin Zhang (additional)
  7. Zhengyang Zhao (additional)
  8. Hongshi Li (additional)
  9. P. Quarterman (additional)
  10. Yang Lv (additional)
  11. Mo Li (additional)
  12. Aurelien Manchon (additional)
  13. K. Andre Mkhoyan (additional)
  14. Tony Low (additional)
  15. Jian-Ping Wang (additional)
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