Thermodynamics and phase diagrams of layered superconductor/ferromagnet nanostructures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Barsic, Paul H ^a   Valls, Oriol T ^a,c   Halterman, Klaus ^b  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 33847626568     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.104502     Document Type: Article

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