Tunneling conductance in superconductor/ferromagnet junctions: Self-consistent approach

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Barsic, Paul H ^a,b   Valls, Oriol T ^a,c  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b ARETÉ ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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EID: 58949097022     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.014502     Document Type: Article

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