General green’s-function formalism for transport calculations with (formula presented) hamiltonians and giant magnetoresistance in co- and ni-based magnetic multilayers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 11936-11948

  Bratkovsky, A M ^c   Lambert, C J ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

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EID: 0001299824     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.11936     Document Type: Article

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