Magneto-Coulomb Oscillation in Ferromagnetic Single Electron Transistors

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1359-1370

  Shimada, Hiroshi ^a   Ono, Keiji ^a   Ootuka, Youiti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coulomb oscillation; Ferromagnet; SET; Single electron charging effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032362599     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.67.1359     Document Type: Article

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