Impurity scattering from δ-layers in giant magnetoresistance systems

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 22, 2001, Pages

  Marrows, C H ^a   Hickey, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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COBALT; COPPER;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; MAGNETISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PURIFICATION; ROTATION;

EID: 0034906916     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.220405     Document Type: Article

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