A theoretical study of the effect of electronic structures of ferromagnets on giant magnetoresistance

Journal of the Korean Physical Society

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 451-459

  Noh, Eun Sun ^a   Lee, Hyuck Mo ^a   Ulloa, Sergio E ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exchange splitting; Transfer matrix method; Transmission probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645531524     PISSN: 03744884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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