Bias voltage dependence of the magnetoresistance in ballistic vacuum tunneling: Theory and application to planar Co(0001) junctions

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 17, 2003, Pages

  Henk, J ^a   Bruno, P ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; MAGNETISM; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VACUUM;

EID: 0346970761     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.174430     Document Type: Article

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