Critical thickness for itinerant ferromagnetism in ultrathin films of SrRuO3

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Xia, Jing ^a,b   Siemons, W ^a,c   Koster, G ^a,c   Beasley, M R ^a,b   Kapitulnik, A ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 67650320738     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.79.140407     Document Type: Article

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