Superconducting proximity effect through a magnetic domain wall

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 14, 2005, Pages

  Konstandin, Alexander ^a   Kopu, Juha ^a,b   Eschrig, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

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EID: 29644434725     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.140501     Document Type: Article

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