Nonlinear transport in tunnel magnetoresistance systems

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 480-485

  Sheng, L ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Teng, H Y ^a   Ting, C S ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

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EID: 0001564476     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.480     Document Type: Article

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