Structural, magnetic, electronic, and spin transport properties of epitaxial Fe 3Si/GaAs(001)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Ionescu, A ^a   Vaz, C A F ^a   Trypiniotis, T ^a   Gurtler C M ^a   Garcia Miquel H ^a,f   Bland, J A C ^a   Vickers, M E ^b   Dalgliesh, R M ^c   Langridge, S ^c   Bugoslavsky, Y ^d   Miyoshi, Y ^d   Cohen, L F ^d   Ziebeck, K R A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; GALLIUM; IRON COMPLEX; SILICON DERIVATIVE;

ACCELERATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONICS; FILM; MAGNETISM; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM YIELD; REFLECTOMETRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT KINETICS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 20344390252     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.094401     Document Type: Article

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