Enhanced magnetic field sensitivity of spin-dependent transport in cluster-assembled metallic nanostructures

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 730-734

  Serrano Guisan, Santiago ^a   Di Domenicantonio, Giulia ^a   Abid, Mohamed ^a   Abid, Jean Pierre ^a   Hillenkamp, Matthias ^a   Gravier, Laurent ^a   Ansermet, Jean Philippe ^a   Félix, Christian ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION EXCHANGE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLYIMIDES; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

CLUSTERS; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SPIN-DEPENDENT TRANSPORT; THERMOELECTRIC MEASUREMENT;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33748282216     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1713     Document Type: Article

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