Spin-polarized tunneling with GaAs tips in scanning tunneling microscopy

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 8105-8113

  Prins, M ^a   Jansen, R ^a   van Kempen, H ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0000151621     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.53.8105     Document Type: Article

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