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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Physics Research International Volume 2011, Article ID 505091, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2011/505091 Research Article Spin Polarized Transport in an AC-Driven Quantum Curved Nanowire Walid A. Zein,1 Nabil A. Ibrahim,2 and Adel H. Phillips1 1 Faculty of Engineering, Ain-Shams University, Cairo 11517, Egypt 2 Higher Technological Institute, Ramadan Tenth City 44629, Egypt Correspondence should be addressed to Adel H. Phillips, phillips adel@ Received 17 September 2010; Accepted 20 April 2011 Academic Editor: Neil Sullivan Copyright © 2011 Walid A. Zein et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Using the effective-mass approximation method, and Floquet theory, we study the spin transport characteristics through a curved quantum nanowire. The spin polarization, P, and the tunneling magnetoresistance, TMR, are deduced under the effect of microwave and infrared radiations of wide range of frequencies. The results show an oscillatory behavior of both the spin polarization and the tunneling magnetoresistance. This is due to Fano-type resonance and the interplay between the strength of spin-orbit coupling and the photons in the subbands of the one-dimensional nanowire. The present results show that this investigation is very important, and the present device might be used to be a sensor for small strain in semiconductor nanostructures and photodetector. 1. Introduction ire under the effect of microwave (MW) and infrared (IR)