Spin-dependent transparency of ferromagnet/superconductor interfaces

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 166603/1-166603/4

  Xia, K ^a   Kelly, P J ^a   Bauer, G E W ^b   Turek, I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF MATERIALS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BAND STRUCTURE; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TRANSPARENCY; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ANDREEV REFLECTION; BLONDER-TINKHAM-KLAPWIJK MODEL; ELECTRON WAVE FUNCTION; HOLE WAVE FUNCTION; TRANSITION METAL BAND STRUCTURE;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 3843144636     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.166603     Document Type: Article

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