Spin mixing and spin-current asymmetry measured by domain wall magnetoresistance

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Marrows, C H ^a   Dalton, B C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; PARAMAGNETISM; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

DOMAIN WALL MAGNETORESISTANCE; SPIN MIXING; SPIN POLARIZATION; X-RAY REFLECTOMETRY;

MAGNETORESISTANCE;

EID: 2442419530     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.097206     Document Type: Article

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