Superconductor-ferromagnet tunneling measurements indicate sp-spin and d-spin currents

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Munzenberg M ^a,b   Moodera, J S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL; TRANSITION ELEMENT;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON; MAGNETISM; POLARIZATION; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 19544372260     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.060402     Document Type: Article

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