Impurity-assisted interlayer exchange coupling across a tunnel barrier

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Zhuravlev, M Ye ^a   Tsymbal, E Y ^a   Vedyayev, A V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLAYER EXCHANGE COUPLING; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; SPIN CURRENT; TUNNEL BARRIERS;

ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERMI LEVEL; FERROMAGNETISM; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETORESISTANCE;

IMPURITIES;

EID: 18144431773     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.026806     Document Type: Article

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