Critical current suppression in a superconductor by injection of spin-polarized carriers from a ferromagnet

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1134-1137

  Vas'ko, V A ^a   Larkin, V A ^a   Kraus, P A ^a   Nikolaev, K R ^a   Grupp, D E ^a   Nordman, C A ^a   Goldman, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; CRITICAL CURRENTS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DYSPROSIUM ALLOYS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GOLD; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIZATION; REFLECTION HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

CURIE TEMPERATURE; DYSPROSIUM BARIUM CUPRATE; LANTHANUM COPPER OXIDE; LANTHANUM STRONTIUM MANGANATE; SPIN POLARIZED CARRIERS;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS;

EID: 0031075289     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1134     Document Type: Article

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