Spin injection in mesoscopic silver wires: Experimental test of resistance mismatch

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Godfrey, Ryan ^a   Johnson, Mark ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESOSCOPIC SILVER WIRES; PERMALLOY ELECTRODE; SPIN INJECTION; SPIN POLARIZATION;

ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POLARIZATION; SILVER;

WIRE;

EID: 33645673089     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.136601     Document Type: Article

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