Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Nanoscale Cobalt Islands on Cu(111)

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 572021-572024

  Pietzsch, O ^a   Kubetzka, A ^a   Bode, M ^a   Wiesendanger, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIZATION; MONOLAYERS; MULTILAYERS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLARIZATION; REMANENCE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

SCANNING TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY; SPIN-POLARIZATION;

COBALT;

EID: 1642310276     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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