Dominant role of the size effect for saturation resistivity and giant magnetoresistance in Co/Cu multilayers

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 89, Issue 11 II, 2001, Pages 7118-7120

  Elefant, D ^a   Tietjen, D ^a   Van Loyen, L ^a   Moench, I ^a   Schneider, C M ^a  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

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EID: 0035356878     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1359224     Document Type: Article

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