Domain wall scattering explains 300% ballistic magnetoconductance of nanocontacts

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2030-2033

  Tatara, G ^a,b   Zhao, Y W ^c   Munoz M ^c   Garcia N ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC MAGNETOCONDUCTANCE; BALLISTIC MAGNETORESISTANCE (BMR); NANOCONTACTS;

COBALT; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETORESISTANCE; NICKEL;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 4243613991     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2030     Document Type: Article

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