Theory of impurity resonant tunnel magnetoresistance

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 13, 2004, Pages

  Sheng, L ^a   Xing, D Y ^a   Sheng, D N ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; NICKEL;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONDUCTANCE; DENSITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENERGY; MAGNETISM; NANOPARTICLE; THEORY; TUNNELING MAGNETORESISTANCE;

EID: 42749108828     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.132414     Document Type: Article

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