Role of interface transparency and spin-dependent scattering in diffusive ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Linder, Jacob ^a   Yokoyama, Takehito ^b   Sudbø, Asle ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 44449155847     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.174514     Document Type: Article

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