Tunneling of electrons in conventional and half-metallic systems: Towards very large magnetoresistance

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 2344-2347

  Bratkovsky, A ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

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EID: 0001270070     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.2344     Document Type: Article

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