Transport Relaxation Time of Spin-Polarized Electrons |
|
A. Paja and B.J. Spisak
Faculty of Physics and Nuclear Techniques, AGH-University of Science and Technology, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland |
| Full Text PDF |
| Received: December 1, 2003; revised version: May 17, 2004; |
| We study the mechanism of spin relaxation in 3D disordered metallic systems due to the spin-orbit scattering on charged impurities. The transport relaxation time for spin-polarized conduction electrons is calculated analytically in the presented model, where the screened Coulomb potential is used for the description of impurities. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.106.69 PACS numbers: 72.10.-d, 72.10.Fk, 72.15.Lh, 72.25.Ba, 72.25.Rb |