Interface resistances of magnetic multilayers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 10805-10808

  Schep, Kees M ^a   van Hoof, Jeroen B A N ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0000471198     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.10805     Document Type: Article

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