Search for mean-free-path effects in current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistance

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 18, 2004, Pages

  Chiang, Wen C ^a,b   Ritz, C ^a,c   Eid, K ^a,d   Loloee, R ^a   Pratt Jr , W P ^a   Bass, J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; GOLD; SILVER;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 42749105998     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.184405     Document Type: Article

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