Spin accumulation and decay in magnetic Schottky barriers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Bauer, Gerrit E W ^a   Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav ^b   Brataas, Arne ^c   Ren, Jun ^d   Xia, Ke ^d   Zwierzycki, Maciej ^e   Kelly, Paul J ^e  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 29644441133     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.155304     Document Type: Article

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