Large magnetic anisotropy and tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance in layered bimetallic nanostructures: Case study of Mn/W(001)

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Shick, A B ^a   MacA F ^a   Ondracek M ^a   Mryasov, O N ^b   Jungwirth, T ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b SEAGATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 49649112614     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.054413     Document Type: Article

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