Nonequilibrium superconductivity under spin-polarized quasiparticle currents in perovskite ferromagnet-insulator-superconductor heterostructures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 10522-10526

  Fu, C C ^a   Samoilov, A V ^a   Li, Y ^a   Vakili, K ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0000222187     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.10522     Document Type: Article

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