Universal relationship between giant magnetoresistance and anisotropic magnetoresistance in spin valve multilayers

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 294-298

  Miller, B H ^a,c   Stojković, Branko P ^b   Dahlberg, E D ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^c SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY;

BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT; EFFECTIVE MEAN FREE PATHS; FERROMAGNETIC LAYERS; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCES (GMR); SPIN-DOWN ELECTRONS; SPIN-VALVE MULTILAYERS; UNIVERSAL BEHAVIORS; UNIVERSAL RELATIONSHIP;

GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE;

EID: 0000436301     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00166-8     Document Type: Article

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