Diffusive and ballistic current spin polarization in magnetron-sputtered L 10 -ordered epitaxial FePt

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Seemann, Klaus M ^a   Baltz, Vincent ^a   MacKenzie, Maureen ^b   Chapman, John N ^b   Hickey, Bryan J ^a   Marrows, Christopher H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 36548998749     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.174435     Document Type: Article

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