Spin-polarized tunnel current in magnetic-layer systems and its relation to the interlayer exchange interaction

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 4287-4304

  Heide, C ^a   Elliott, R J ^a   Wingreen, Ned S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEC LABORATORIES AMERICA   (United States)

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EID: 0000040253     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.4287     Document Type: Article

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