Determining the current polarization in Al/Co nanostructured point contacts

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Perez Willard F ^a   Cuevas, J C ^a   Surgers C ^a   Pfundstein, P ^a   Kopu, J ^a   Eschrig, M ^a   Lohneysen H V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; COBALT; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIAL;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MAGNETIC FIELD; PHYSICS; POLARIZATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 42749107032     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.140502     Document Type: Article

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