Optical and magneto-optical properties of ferromagnetic full-Heusler films: Experiments and first-principles calculations

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Ricci, Fabio ^a   Picozzi, Silvia ^a   Continenza, Alessandra ^a   D'Orazio, Franco ^a   Lucari, Franco ^a   Westerholt, Kurt ^b   Kim, Miyoung ^c,d   Freeman, Arthur J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

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EID: 34447623246     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.014425     Document Type: Article

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