Crossover between the ballistic and diffusive regime of the spin-conductance and giant magnetoresistance in magnetic multilayered nanostructures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 7385-7394

  Sanvito, S ^a,b   Lambert, C J ^a   Jefferson, J H ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000844555     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.7385     Document Type: Article

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