Giant magnetoresistance dependence on the lateral correlation length of the interface roughness in magnetic superlattices

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 1242-1248

  Lefebvre, S ^d   Bessiere, M ^d   Moshchalkov, V V ^b   Bruynseraede, Y ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

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EID: 0001446733     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.1242     Document Type: Article

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