Spin-polarized tunneling as a probe of the electronic properties of Ga1-x Mnx As heterostructures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Elsen, M ^a,b   Jaffres H ^a,b   Mattana, R ^a,b   Thevenard, L ^a   Lemaitre, A ^a   George, J M ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

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EID: 35348817978     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.144415     Document Type: Article

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